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Autonomy, Refusal, and The Black Bloc reinterprets the positioning
of critical and radical theory by focusing squarely on the role of
class analysis. It also argues that the survivance of The Frankfurt
School style of critique is wholly dependent upon the traditions of
radical theory that find their same departure point from out of
"the great refusals" of the 1960s and 1970s. By linking together
the traditions of critical and radical theory through the work of
Marcuse and Negri and by demonstrating their conjunctural and
historiographical connections, Carley argues that the inventive
strategic and organizational contexts that give rise to the black
bloc tactic constitute a new political expression of class and,
more forcefully, constitute the meaning of class politics for the
late 20th and 21st century.
Collectivities, in brief, is a term describing the intellectual and
creative potential of groups. Collectivities then mark a position
in the connection between disciplinary fields; a position that is
simultaneously productive of new knowledge and new politics. In
Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines Robert
Carley looks at the classical ideas and theorists that have
influenced interdisciplinary work in the humanistic and
social-scientific disciplines as well as contemporary cases of
interdisciplinary meeting points, specifically cultural studies,
Chicana/o studies and radical sociology (e.g. critical, liberation,
public, and Marxist approaches). He discusses the intellectual,
creative, and political potential of these groupings. Noting that
interdisciplinary groups often come together to address political
or social problems, Carley provides an analysis of these groupings
as well as ways of understanding their work. He suggests that we
might understand interdisciplinarity as more than merely a
constellation of scholarly fields. By looking at the political
contexts that inform our understanding of as well as the approaches
of interdisciplinary groups Collectivities suggests some new ways
to think about the production of knowledge when it occurs between
disciplines.
This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and
methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural
analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural
analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the
emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the
belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in
Gramsci's work, but using a broader range of primary, secondary,
and also untranslated sources on the conjuncture, Carley
demonstrates that Gramsci has decisively settled that ambiguity.
Through a philological approach to Gramsci's original texts, this
book alters the debate around conjunctural analysis and offers
means to reinterpret cultural studies and its relationship to its
founding thinkers.
This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and
methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural
analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural
analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the
emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the
belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in
Gramsci's work, but using a broader range of primary, secondary,
and also untranslated sources on the conjuncture, Carley
demonstrates that Gramsci has decisively settled that ambiguity.
Through a philological approach to Gramsci's original texts, this
book alters the debate around conjunctural analysis and offers
means to reinterpret cultural studies and its relationship to its
founding thinkers.
This edited volume examines the theoretical versatility of the
concept of "borders." The impulse to categorize, while present from
antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the
advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in
the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While the concept of
immigration is the common mental image Westerners have when
discussing borders, immigration is only the tip of the iceberg for
this book. The belief in mutually exclusive, clear, and concrete
categories, a necessary ideology in the age of the nation-state,
creates large swathes of exceptions where people live ambiguous
lives nationally, racially, sexually, ethnically, and in terms of
gender. National identity, race, sexuality, gender, and the
intersections between are the main categories discussed in the book
through the lens of borders and ambiguity. The fervor over
categorization, best embodied in recent political history by the
Trump administration in the U.S., is both a desire to identify and
thus control various "dangerous" populations, as well as creating
the very ambiguity categorization is intended to alleviate. The
volume weaves together discussions on the subjective meaning-making
in ambiguity, policies that create ambiguity, historical creations
of ambiguity that persist to the present, and theoretical
considerations on the relationship between borders and ambiguity.
The Cultural Production of Social Movements offers a theory of
cultural practices, protest tactics, strategic planning and
deliberation, and movement organizational structures:
“ideological contention.” It is a theory of ideology “from
below.” The Cultural Production of Social Movements shows how
conflicts—both with external political forces and disagreements,
dissensus, and the decision-making process internal to social
movements—produce knowledge and meanings that, in turn, impact
upon and change the practices that contribute to how social
movements are structured and organized. The Cultural Production of
Social Movements theorizes the relationship between consciously
held superordinate ideas, the changing composition of progressive
and oppositional social struggles, and the social worlds they hope
to inhabit. Analyzing the Black Panther Party, specifically
Kathleen Cleaver’s break with the Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee and her contributions to the Party,
Operaismo (or Workerism) in Italy and the relationship between
shifting organizational strategies, inventive tactics, and novel
and expansive ways to theorize class struggles, and the communal
composition of “Worker-Recovered Enterprise Movements” in
contemporary Argentina, this book shows how movement ideologies
change and how meanings structure organizations, mobilizations, and
futures. In The Cultural Production of Social Movements ideology is
neither a static set of principles, nor is an unconscious
orientation towards power and governance. Rather, it is the
contentious, democratizing, and deliberative processes—which
become realized as tactics in protests, struggles, defeats, and
victories—that makes the relationship between movements, and what
they “mean” conscious to its participants.
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