Disorienting Democracy: Politics of emancipation (Interventions) [Paperback]

Description: Introduction: Disorienting democracy Disorienting the left and the limits of communism Rejecting postdemocracy and rethinking the state of the left Plotting our route Dis-reconnaissance in preparation for voyage Practicing dissensus 1. Equality: the twisted path of emancipation `Politics¿ as appropriation, subjectivation and dis-identification `Politics¿ can be willed The ordinary in the extraordinary: how to decide between `politics¿ or police `Politics¿ and effectivity Strategy: from police to `politics 2. Reflexivity: Untangling the revolution The counter-revolutionary charge Domination and emancipation in critical theory Distinguishing domination via the aesthetics of knowledge Christoph Menke and critical thinking as a practice of reflexivity Reflexivity as dissensual practice 3. Aversivity: Thinking against conformity Appropriating emancipation against conformity Emancipation in Cavell¿s aversive thinking Dissensual community Exemplars of dissent Provoking the self through aversivity 4. Poeticity: from the glade of the cicadas to the island of the people `Literarity¿ or `literariness¿? Rancière, writing and literarity Re-tracing literarity against Derrida Doubling democracy, doubling literature Poeticity as play with meaning 5. Absurdity: aesthetics of subversion Senses of absurdity From theatre to the streets Subversion as iteration in the work of Judith Butler Reading Butler and Rancière together Practicing absurdity, living the carnival Reflections on revolutionising: a voyage without a compass

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