Category: Volume 16

Teresa M. Vilarós Texas A&M University Volume 16, 2024 In 1974, the Paris’s central slaughterhouse, operating since 1867 in La Villette in the outskirts of Paris, officially closed its doors. Its closing was part and parcel of the emerging supra mass-consumption mode of the postmodern period and beyond.  Massification was changing forever the modes and...

Rafael FernándezTexas A&M University   Volume 16, 2024 In this paper, I think through Alberto Moreiras’ elaboration of Philippe Lynes’s idea of a Heideggerian general ecology, focusing first on the concept of “ruinance” as elaborated on by Martin Heidegger in his 1921-22 lecture course, Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle. In the first section, I reflect on...

James Martell & Tyler M. Williams Volume 16, 2024 The essays collected in this special issue of Política Común do not pretend to encapsulate its topic completely. Rather, they serve as openings and invitations to consider for our era the relevance of deconstruction (broadly construed) to critiques of rising tides of fascism. Much work has...

Sarah WoodIndependent Scholar Volume 16, 2024 Let’s begin with a sheaf of epigraphs—even if right now we don’t know what this kind of sheaf is, or how sheaving might work: 1) … the programmer instructs the computer to abide by certain rules, which are then converted into commands to be executed. Activities are ruled by...

Tyler M. WilliamsMidwestern State University Volume 16, 2024 There are people who say, “I’m thirsty.” They step into a café and order a beer. Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After (145) Language is Fascist In his inaugural lecture upon being appointed in 1977 to the Chair of Literary Semiology at the Collège de France, Roland Barthes...

James MartellLyon College Volume 16, 2024 Socrates: “Tell me, do you deny altogether the possibility of such a craftsman, or do you admit that in a sense there could be such a creator of all these things, and in another sense not? Or do you not perceive that you yourself would be able to make...

Rodrigo GonsalvesUniversidade de São Paulo Volume 16, 2024 Introduction In recent times, Brazilian politics has been dangerously flirting with repeating its own past: the reestablishment of a renewed military dictatorship. In the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a far-right populist was democratically elected. The 2018 Brazilian presidential elections saw a dramatic rise in far-right populist rhetoric....

Luce deLireIndependent Scholar I. A Case of Murder Fig. 1. The dining room at my grandparent’s apartment used to be dominated by a large painting of a man I never met, a footnote to the lives of my grandparents: “uncle Max.” He and his wife Hilde owned an ironware store with about six employees next...

Sergio Villalobos-RuminottUniversity of Michigan Volume 16, 2024 I believe, I truly believe, that true fascism is what sociologists have naively called “the consumer society”. A definition that seems harmless, purely indicative. But no. If one observes reality well, and above all if one knows how to read the objects, the landscape, the urban planning and,...

Ryan TracyKnox College Volume 16, 2024 We liked the fascists. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography We liked the fascists. Thus spoke Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) on the pages of Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), the follow-up to the bestselling The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). Can we forgive such a phrase, appearing, as it does, under Gertrude Stein’s...