Author: Gareth (Gareth Williams)

Teresa M. VilarósTexas A&M University Volume 8, 2015 There is an evident topological quality in The Passage West, Giacomo Marramao’s excellent reading of the processes and dynamics of globalization. Already from the title, Marramao draws our attention to the existence of possible directions, routes, and pathways. Even the front cover of the English edition, José de Ribera’s...

Antonio TucciUniversità di Salerno Volume 9, 2016 In this essay I intend to focus on different forms of political subjectivation within the context of neoliberal governmentality. I would like to show how these forms ‘constitute’ themselves ambivalently, indicating a paradoxical and unprecedented compatibility of dispositifs of inclusion and exclusion, the foundation of which refers to the...

Alejandro Sánchez LoperaUniversidad el Bosque Volume 9, 2016 La filosofía de Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) ha sido asociada, en diversas ocasiones y a ambos lados del Atlántico, con la exaltación vitalista del deseo. Especialmente molesto para determinadas lecturas marxistas, aquí y allá el trabajo de Deleuze ha sido vinculado incluso con el despliegue de las formas contemporáneas...

Chantal MouffeUniversity of Westminster Volume 9, 2016 How should democratic politics deal with conflict? This is the question that is at the core of my reflection on ‘the political’ and that I will address in this essay. I will begin by delineating the general framework of my approach, whose theoretical bases have been elaborated in Hegemony and...

Sandro LuceUniversità Di Salerno Volume 9, 2016 In this essay I will focus on some theoretical issues concerning Fanon’s thinking. The aim is to grasp the influence his thought has exerted over the theories of some of the scholars of the postcolonial field – such as Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak – but also to emphasize...

Paul A. KottmanThe New School for Research Volume 9, 2016 At a certain level of experience and self-awareness, questions like the following typically arise — What am I doing with her? What is he doing with me? What are we doing together? It seems safe to say that questions like these are voiced not only by philosophers or...

Abraham AcostaUniversity of Arizona Volume 9, 2016 The debates relating to the emergence of postcolonial theory and testimonio in Latin America took place along near simultaneous times between the 1980s and the early 2000s.[1] In many ways, these debates have had a lasting, productive impact on the terms and conditions for contemporary latinamericanist inquiry, as it opened...

Armando MastrogiovanniBaruch college, city university of new york Volume 14, 2016 Geschlecht and Life I will leave this word in its own language for reasons that should impose themselves on us in the course of the reading. And it is certainly a matter of “Geschlecht” (the word for sex, race, family, generation, lineage, species, genre), and not of Geschlecht as...