A New Political Imagination: Making the Case

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
About the authors
Prolegomena
Introduction: The political (de)formation of the now
The failure of politics in the end times
Democracy in crisis: recasting the debate
A starting point: the trilateral commission
The undemocratic underbelly of democracy
Voices speaking crisis: a sampler
Recasting: the relational actuality of crisis
Our ambitions and intent
References
1 Openings: Configuring the critical and criticality
The moment of criticality and the now of crisis
History without telos
Unsettlement at the end of directional time
Undirected futureless ‘leadership’
Chronophobia and the existential repression of crisis
The culture of de-relational knowledge
On relationality
Heidegger/Descartes – Arendt/ Heidegger – Arendt/Levinas
The collapse of ‘the Nomos of the earth’
Confronting complexity beyond an ability to fully comprehend the complex
Notes
References
2 A lexicon of analytics
Fracture zones
Geopolitical reconfigurations, fractures and war
Reimag(in)ing the perpetual war
The post-peace condition and the looming geopolitics of survival
From enemies to dispensable lives
Cooperate rather than compete?
The Arctic:
China – South and East China Seas:
Southwest Russia/Northwest China:
Russia/Eastern Europe:
India/Pakistan:
Egypt/Ethiopia:
Africa:
Southeast Asia:
Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Afghanistan:
Venezuela/Colombia and Brazil:
Opening into the futuring of a tragic world
War now
Climate change reimag(in)ed
Un-bounding the climate
One as many
Time mis-placed
Displaced causality
Ontological rupture
The ontological obstacles, rupture, and two breakaways
Encounter two
The lighter and darker sides of the (post)human
Re-subjection (political and technological)
Development, un-development and the agenda of postdevelopment
Nationalism and cosmopolitanism undone
The state of exception as a post-democratic/postsocialist normative condition
The many faces of the ‘posthuman’
A critique of critical posthumanism
An other humanism as a humanism of the other
Technological constructions of reality
Take one: making real
Take two: the technological construction of whose real?
From epistemological to digital techno-colonialism
Relationality and technology
Technology and the human counter-agency
The epistemological maze
Pathways
Path one: the reality circuit of western epistemology
Path two: the narrow way
Path three: the way of the believer (faith in reason)
On disciplinary decadence, post-disciplines and beyond
The onto-epistem-ology and the corpopolitics of knowledge
Path four: political theology
Political theology from the 1930s to the present
The past as the future
Political theology and political imagination
Path five: the ontotheological
Path six: the anti-epistemological
Path seven: the Eurocentric dead-end and border thinking
Multi-spatial hermeneutics
Path eight: relearning to learn
Path nine: the way out
Notes
References
3 Narratives of gathering(s) of the political
On gathering
Prefiguring the political and politics now
The now of the political
The obstacles
The political (and) community: an opening into
Nancy meets Simondon
After democracy. Futuring the political: gatherings
What is to be gathered?
Notes
References
4 Imagination otherwise
The ineffability of complexity and the unbearable inaccuracy of language
Imagination after postmodernism?
Imagination and the technological
A refusal to imagine the end times and the impasse of the sweatshop sublime
Post-Marxist reanimations of the commons: aesthetics as politics
Breaking the Euromodern epistemic dead-end?
Decolonial imaginary and decolonial aesthesis
Undoing something previously created and/or remaking it
Reconsidering the imagination through survival
Some ways of imagining an imagination otherwise
The need for a new political imagination reinstated
Context-formed theory and counter-academy pedagogy
Note
References
5 Towards a research agenda and researching research
Part 1. Openings into research agendas
Mapping the obstacles course of the future
Figures of inter-relational engagement
Cluster1. Climate/anthropology/technology/psychology conflict
Cluster 2. Extinction/migration/biopolitics/posthumanism/post-nation/community
Staging the event of imagination
Points towards a summary
Part 2: A reply in the form of events
Mapping the obstacles course of the future
Accounting the first act of the play of the new age of fire
An inter-relational engagement
Loss, unsettlement, habitus
A staged event
A conversation in and on a borderland (a documented dialogue) between TF/MT
Last words: a dialogue
A final note on resistance
Notes
References
Index