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Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and
Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the
critical and political commitment of various Latin American and
Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global
“stealth revolution” in recent decades, where neoliberalism has
forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system
devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the
shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies
to build new conceptions of the public and the common through
mobilizing affects usually disavowed in political theory. If, in
Ancient Greece, the idea of strengthening the most vulnerable and
weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited
by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side
of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance
and emancipation, which are able to bring about new distributions
of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to extend our
goal of creating a radically democratic world.
Is it due to lack of critical agency that precarious persons opt,
time and again, for political views that contribute to their
marginalization? How should we understand that alleged loss of
critical agency and how could it be countered? Influential
perspectives in critical theory have answered these questions by
highlighting how certain ideological mechanisms, incorporated
thoughtlessly by the most vulnerable bodies, function to obscure
what their interests are and the causes of the condition they find
themselves in. Through an original interpretation of Jacques
Ranciere's thought, but also going beyond it, The Politics of
Bodies establishes a different horizon of reflection. The book's
main hypotheses is that the lack of critical agency today has to do
more with a loss of the desire for transformation, fostered by
neoliberal consensual dynamics, than with techniques of deceit and
manipulation. In developing its interpretation of Ranciere's
thought, the book provides an analysis of certain
aesthetic-political and socioeconomic conditions of the historical
present, anchored mainly in Latin America. Thus, it addresses the
corporeal transformations produced by emancipatory practices, the
way in which they affect configurations of power, and the manner in
which they can be disseminated in, and in turn alter, the political
landscape.
Is it due to lack of critical agency that precarious persons opt,
time and again, for political views that contribute to their
marginalization? How should we understand that alleged loss of
critical agency and how could it be countered? Influential
perspectives in critical theory have answered these questions by
highlighting how certain ideological mechanisms, incorporated
thoughtlessly by the most vulnerable bodies, function to obscure
what their interests are and the causes of the condition they find
themselves in. Through an original interpretation of Jacques
Ranciere's thought, but also going beyond it, The Politics of
Bodies establishes a different horizon of reflection. The book's
main hypotheses is that the lack of critical agency today has to do
more with a loss of the desire for transformation, fostered by
neoliberal consensual dynamics, than with techniques of deceit and
manipulation. In developing its interpretation of Ranciere's
thought, the book provides an analysis of certain
aesthetic-political and socioeconomic conditions of the historical
present, anchored mainly in Latin America. Thus, it addresses the
corporeal transformations produced by emancipatory practices, the
way in which they affect configurations of power, and the manner in
which they can be disseminated in, and in turn alter, the political
landscape.
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