What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no What
does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better
world, to not come up with a plan? To just say "no"? Against the
ubiquitous demands for positive solutions, action-oriented
policies, and optimistic compromises, The Big No refuses to play.
Here leading scholars traverse the wide range of political action
when "no" is in the picture, analyzing topics such as collective
action, antisocialism, empirical science, the negative and the
affirmative in Deleuze and Derrida, the "real" and the "clone,"
Native sovereignty, and Afropessimism. In his introduction, Kennan
Ferguson sums up the concept of the "Big No," arguing for its
political importance. Whatever its form-he identifies various
strains-the Big No offers power against systems of oppression.
Joshua Clover argues for the importance of Marx and Fanon in
understanding how people are alienated and subjugated. Theodore
Martin explores the attractions of antisociality in literature and
life, citing such novelists as Patricia Highsmith and Richard
Wright. Francois Laruelle differentiates nonphilosophy from other
forms of French critical theory. Katerina Kolozova applies this
insight to the nature of reality itself, arguing that the confusion
of thought and reality leads to manipulation, automation, and
alienation. Using poetry and autobiography, Frank Wilderson shows
how Black people-their bodies and being-are displaced in politics,
replaced and erased by the subjectivities of violence, suffering,
and absence. Andrew Culp connects these themes of negativity,
comparing and contrasting the refusals of antiphilosophy and
Afropessimism. Thinking critically usually demands alternatives:
how would you fix things? But, as The Big No shows, being
absolutely critical-declining the demands of world-building-is one
necessary response to wrong, to evil. It serves as a powerful
reminder that the presumption of political action is always
positive. Contributors: Joshua Clover, U of California Davis and U
of Copenhagen; Andrew Culp, California Institute of the Arts;
Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities
Skopje; Theodore Martin, U of California, Irvine; Anthony Paul
Smith, La Salle U; Frank B. Wilderson III, U of California, Irvine.
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