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It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an
explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In
None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy
historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in which the
forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a "we" at
the point of "our" violent origin. Best argues that there is and
can be no "we" following from such a time and place, that black
identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration
from David Walker's prayer that "none like us may ever live again
until time shall be no more." Best draws out the connections
between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of
negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like
Us the art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni
Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archive, evidence
an apocalyptic aesthetics, or self-eclipse, which opens the
circuits between past and present and thus charts a queer future
for black study.
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the
most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time.
Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding
motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical
distinctions appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence that
have dominated and shaped the history of Western philosophy since
the time of Plato. It is a position that has propelled him into a
series of heated debates with philosophers who are the most
influential of their generation analytic philosophers such as
Quine, Davidson, Rawls, and Putnam; as well as Continental
philosophers, including Habermas, Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard.
At the same time, Rorty's work has helped to break down the
artificial separation between these two wings of Western philosophy
by acting as an intellectual bridge between them. This distinctive
collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the
cultural, educational, and political significance of his thought.
The nine essays which comprise the collection examine a variety of
related themes: Rorty's neopragmatism, his view of philosophy, his
philosophy of education and culture, Rorty's comparison between
Dewey and Foucault, his relation to postmodern theory, and, also
his form of political liberalism."
The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a
groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading
scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of
corporate-state structures of hegemonic power-what the editors
refer to as "the power complex"-that was first analyzed by C.
Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new
volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II,
and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as
co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of
domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the
transnational institutional relationships of the power complex
combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and
industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production,
While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as
separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as
overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and
which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st
century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex-a grand
power complex of complexes-thus poses one of the most formidable
challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom
and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to
it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global
Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this
emerging educational and political project.
The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a
groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading
scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of
corporate-state structures of hegemonic power-what the editors
refer to as "the power complex"-that was first analyzed by C.
Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new
volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II,
and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as
co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of
domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the
transnational institutional relationships of the power complex
combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and
industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production,
While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as
separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as
overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and
which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st
century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex-a grand
power complex of complexes-thus poses one of the most formidable
challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom
and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to
it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global
Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this
emerging educational and political project.
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