Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political
and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best
intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered
before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn
it towards their own ends.
Since the Enlightenment, the opposing forces of power and resistance
have framed our view of society and politics. Exploring that
development, this book shows how resistance can, ironically, reinforce
existing status quos and fundamentally strengthen capitalist and
colonial desires for “sovereignty” and “domination”. It
highlights, therefore, the urgent need for new critical perspectives
that breaks free from this imprisoning modern history. In this spirit,
this book seeks to theorize the radical potential for a
post-resistance existence and politics. One that exchanges a permanent
revolution against authority with the discovery of novel forms of
agency, social relations and the self that are currently lacking. That
aims to construct economic and social systems based not on the
possibility of freedom but enlarging the freedom of possibility. In
the 21st century can we move beyond power and resistance to a politics
at the radical limits that eternally expands what is socially
possible?
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Politics at the Radical Limits
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781783487554
Publisert
2017
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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