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Critical Theory at a Crossroads : Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis by Stijn De Cauwer, Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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We are living in an age of crisis―or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status quo, can the rhetoric of crisis be used to foment urgency around issues like climate change and financialization, or does framing a situation as a “crisis” play into the hands of the existing political order, which then seeks to tighten the leash by creating a state of emergency? Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years, the protest movements that have risen up in response, and the use of the term in political discourse. Tariq Ali, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, and Joseph Vogl offer their views on contemporary challenges and how we might address them, candidly disc

Author

Stijn De Cauwer, Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231186780

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Political Science