Nigel Thrift: Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · affect, anthropology, cultural studies, everyday, geography, life, non-representational theory, politics, social theory, sociology, space
“This book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions.
It introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience; provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and humanities; and begins the task of constructing a different kind of political genre.”
Publisher Routledge, 2007
International library of sociology
ISBN 0415393213, 9780415393218
325 pages
Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, Vassilis Tsianos: Escape Routes. Control and Subversion in the Twenty-first Century (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · control society, european union, everyday, labour, life, migration, mobility, neoliberalism, precariat, subversion
Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies.
Publisher Pluto Press, 2008
ISBN 0745327788, 9780745327785
300 pages
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Comment (0)Tiqqun: Introduction to Civil War (2009/2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · anarchism, biopolitics, commons, everyday, life, politics
“Society is not in crisis, society is at an end. The things we used to take for granted have all been vaporized. Politics was one of these things, a Greek invention that condenses around an equation: to hold a position means to take sides, and to take sides means to unleash civil war. Civil war, position, sides—these were all one word in the Greek: stasis. If the history of the modern state in all its forms—absolute, liberal, welfare—has been the continuous attempt to ward off this stasis, the great novelty of contemporary imperial power is its embrace of civil war as a technique of governance and disorder as a means of maintaining control. Where the modern state was founded on the institution of the law and its constellation of divisions, exclusions, and repressions, imperial power has replaced them with a network of norms and apparatuses that conspire in the production of the biopolitical citizens of Empire.
In their first book available in English, Tiqqun explores the possibility of a new practice of communism, finding a foundation for an ontology of the common in the politics of friendship and the free play of forms-of-life. They see the ruins of society as the ideal setting for the construction of the community to come. In other words: the situation is excellent. Now is not the time to lose courage.”
Originally published in French by Éditions La Fabrique, 2009.
Translated by Alexander R. Galloway and Jason E. Smith
Publisher Semiotext(e), February 2010
Intervention series, 4
ISBN 1584350865, 9781584350866
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