Although Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for
the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its call,
demanding rights that were not meant for them. This failure of the
French state to address only its desired subjects is an example of
the phenomenon James R. Martel labels "misinterpellation."
Complicating Althusser's famous theory, Martel explores the ways
that such failures hold the potential for radical and anarchist
action. In addition to the Haitian Revolution, Martel shows how the
revolutionary responses by activists and anticolonial leaders to
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech and the Arab Spring sprang
from misinterpellation. He also takes up misinterpellated subjects
in philosophy, film, literature, and nonfiction, analyzing works by
Nietzsche, Kafka, Woolf, Fanon, Ellison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and
others to demonstrate how characters who exist on the margins offer
a generally unrecognized anarchist form of power and resistance.
Timely and broad in scope, The Misinterpellated Subject reveals how
calls by authority are inherently vulnerable to radical
possibilities, thereby suggesting that all people at all times are
filled with revolutionary potential.
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