Showing papers in "Thesis Eleven in 2020"
TL;DR: Populist protests against Coronavirus-related restrictions in the US appear paradoxical in three respects as discussed by the authors. Populism is generally hostile to expertise, yet it has flourished at a moment when experti...
Abstract: Populist protests against Coronavirus-related restrictions in the US appear paradoxical in three respects. Populism is generally hostile to expertise, yet it has flourished at a moment when experti...
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TL;DR: The map of technopolitics systematically identifies the political relations between Big Tech and ‘new digital publics’ to reveal that the new paradigm is based on the supreme value of cognitive efficiency.
Abstract: This paper, based on an invited Thesis Eleven presentation (8 August 2019), provides a ‘map of technopolitics’ that springs from an investigation of the theoretical notion of technological converge
20 citations
TL;DR: The need to facilitate meaningful communication between different world-views and to resist the closing down of dialogue is critical in the face of a rise of populism seemingly in all corners of the globe as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Faced with a rise of populism seemingly in all corners of the globe, the need to facilitate meaningful communication between different world-views and to resist the closing down of dialogue is pres...
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TL;DR: The concept of Neoliberalism itself has arguably become moribund as mentioned in this paper, and perhaps it might even be the case that the Neoliberal alludes to an array of very real material practices and axioms of contemporary capitalism.
Abstract: Whilst the Neoliberal alludes to an array of very real material practices and axioms of contemporary capitalism, the concept of Neoliberalism itself has arguably become moribund. Worse, perhaps it ...
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TL;DR: The article as discussed by the authors provides a holistic account of Zygmunt Bauman's oeuvre and presents an extensive up-to-date and multilingual bibliography of his published writin...
Abstract: The article has two aims: firstly, it provides a holistic account of Zygmunt Bauman’s oeuvre, and secondly, it presents an extensive up-to-date and multilingual bibliography of his published writin...
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TL;DR: The authors argued against assigning Zygmunt Bauman to the category of a white, "European" theorist and the tendency to speak of an undifferentiated "Eurocentrism".
Abstract: This paper argues against assigning Zygmunt Bauman to the category of a ‘white’, ‘European’ theorist and the tendency to speak of an undifferentiated ‘Eurocentrism’. To argue this, I return to a se...
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TL;DR: Legislators and interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) and modernity and ambivalence (1991) are the foundational trilogy on which Zygmunt Bauman developed much of his later work as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Legislators and Interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) and Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) are the foundational trilogy on which Zygmunt Bauman developed much of his later work (f...
11 citations
TL;DR: After the initial formulation of the concept of reification in Georg Lukacs as mentioned in this paper, a series of confusing uses of it within critical theory have contributed to the creation of the Reification Problem.
Abstract: After the initial formulation of the concept of reification in Georg Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness (HCC, 1923), a series of confusing uses of it within critical theory have contributed t...
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TL;DR: For instance, this paper argued that after a decade of political and economic uncertainty, "Capitalism is back". But, as they pointed out, "three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passe."
Abstract: Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passe. Now, after a decade of political and econom...
9 citations
TL;DR: This article presented a critical reading of Albert O. Hirschman's typology of exit, voice and loyalty as a heuristic for understanding the changing meanings of exile in the 20th and early 21st cent...
Abstract: This article presents a critical reading of Albert O. Hirschman’s typology of exit, voice and loyalty as a heuristic for understanding the changing meanings of exile in the 20th and early 21st cent...
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TL;DR: The authors chart an indirect if not oblique path through my own theoretical formation as a social and feminist art historian, informed by Marxist cultural studies but deeply engaged with women's art history.
Abstract: In this article I chart an indirect if not oblique path through my own theoretical formation as a social and feminist art historian, informed by Marxist cultural studies but deeply engaged with iss...
TL;DR: A systematic analysis of multiple forms of modernity and modernization can be found in this article, where the authors argue that modernization is a global but diverse and multidimensional process, and that modernity is a multi-dimensional process.
Abstract: Existing theoretical interpretations contend that modernization is a global but diverse and multidimensional process. Yet, a systematic analysis of multiple forms of modernity and modernization ‘is...
TL;DR: The conceptual and methodological contributions of Marxist aesthetics from Eastern European countries like Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and East Germany were prod... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The conceptual and methodological contributions of Marxist aesthetics from Eastern European countries like Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and East Germany were prod...
TL;DR: The gig economy has become a hot topic in the world of live music as mentioned in this paper, where performers striving for recognition hope to get a few "gigs" - i.e. s...
Abstract: The gig economy has become a hot topic. The term itself derives from the world of entertainment, particularly live music, where performers striving for recognition hope to get a few ‘gigs’ – i.e. s...
TL;DR: Castoriadis made a significant and distinctive contribution to the development of the notion of the dialectic of control and formulated an important reconc... as mentioned in this paper, which is the basis for the Dialectic of Control.
Abstract: Cornelius Castoriadis made a significant and distinctive contribution to the development of the notion of the dialectic of control. In the first instance, Castoriadis formulated an important reconc...
TL;DR: A sociological work related to the culture industry thesis was undertaken by Adorno during his period as a "refugee scholar" in the USA as discussed by the authors. But it has been charged with a "sociological deficit" by lea...
Abstract: Major sociological work related to the culture industry thesis was undertaken by Adorno during his period as a ‘refugee scholar’ in the USA. It has been charged with a ‘sociological deficit’ by lea...
TL;DR: In this article, the specific conception of art developed by Danko Grlic, a prominent member of the Yugoslav Praxis School, is explored, which is beyond both aesthetic norms and technologica.
Abstract: The article explores the specific conception of art developed by Danko Grlic, a prominent member of the Yugoslav Praxis School. Grlic conceptualised art beyond both aesthetic norms and technologica...
TL;DR: Despite being the work of one of the 20th-century's most famous philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason has never been fully integrated into our collective philosophical con...
Abstract: Despite being the work of one of the 20th-century’s most famous philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason has never been fully integrated into our collective philosophical con...
TL;DR: The career and scholarly achievements of Smith (1916-2011) since his retirement from teaching in 1977 and has predictably gathered pace after his death has been published in the literature.
Abstract: Much has been published on the career and scholarly achievements of Bernard Smith (1916–2011) since his retirement from teaching in 1977 and has predictably gathered pace after his death. It is cle...
TL;DR: In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH), both based at the University of Leeds (UK), initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the...
Abstract: In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH), both based at the University of Leeds (UK), initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the ...
TL;DR: In this article, Lukacs resolved the antinomies of bourgeois philosophy in the revolutionary "standpoint of class consciousness" in history and class consciousness, and proposed a class consciousness of the proletariat.
Abstract: In History and Class Consciousness’ central essay ‘Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat’, Lukacs resolved the antinomies of bourgeois philosophy in the revolutionary ‘standpoint of ...
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of university management roles in the age of permanent austerity is presented, with the repackaging of every function within the university administration as a cost centre.
Abstract: This paper offers a typology of university management roles in the age of permanent austerity. The repackaging of every function within the university administration as a cost centre – meaning of c...
TL;DR: The authors gave a brief sketch of Gyorgy Markus's philosophical style as manifest in the context of his role within the revival of Hegelian philosophy in Sydney in the last decades of the 20th century.
Abstract: This paper gives a brief sketch of Gyorgy Markus’s philosophical style as manifest in the context of his role within the revival of Hegelian philosophy in Sydney in the last decades of the 20th cen...
TL;DR: The authors claim that Bauman's personal experiences deeply shaped his work, and they draw upon their own research, combining archive documents and interviews data, as well as for the first part of this paper.
Abstract: This paper claims that Bauman’s personal experiences deeply shaped his work. In the first part, I draw upon my own research, combining archive documents and interviews data, as well as – for the ve...
TL;DR: Castoriadis explains racism as a mode of hatred of the other and as a feature of the self-institution of heteronomous societies built on ethnocentrism.
Abstract: Castoriadis explains racism as a mode of hatred of the other and as a feature of the self-institution of heteronomous societies built on ethnocentrism. At the level of the psychical human being he ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aim to determine the place of Marxism in Polish literary studies of the 20th century, starting from Czeslaw Milosz's comment on the identity of Marxism and structuralism.
Abstract: In this paper, I aim to determine the place of Marxism in Polish literary studies of the 20th century. The starting point is (1) Czeslaw Milosz’s comment on the identity of Marxism and structuralis...
TL;DR: The authors examines different intellectual-historical approaches to the work of Georg Lukacs, arguing that a methodology similar to that of the Cambridge School is, curiously, that most in line w...
Abstract: This article examines different intellectual-historical approaches to the work of Georg Lukacs, arguing that a methodology similar to that of the Cambridge School is, curiously, that most in line w...
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of the political thought of Czech Marxist philosopher Egon Bondy is examined from a Marxist perspective, focusing on his criticism of state socialism in the Eastern Block.
Abstract: This paper focuses on the development of the political thought of Czech Marxist philosopher Egon Bondy. It examines his criticism of state socialism in the Eastern Block from a Marxist perspective,...
TL;DR: This article focused on Georg Lukacs, and the attendant debates and disagreements that led to an entire constellation of questions around Realism is first compellingly formulated, for it is in his work, and its attendant debates, that a new constellation of realism questions around realism was first formulated.
Abstract: This paper focuses on Georg Lukacs, for it is in his work, and the attendant debates and disagreements, that an entire constellation of questions around Realism is first compellingly formulated. Th...
TL;DR: The significance of being an intellectual when taken prisoner and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis is rarely discussed as discussed by the authors, instead, the importance of being either a Jew or a political prison is discussed.
Abstract: The significance of being an intellectual when taken prisoner and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis is rarely discussed – instead, the importance of being either a Jew or a political prison...