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Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Evolutionary Issue of Politics and Culture
Introduction to the Special Evolutionary Issue of Politics and Culture I’m grateful to Michael Ryan for inviting me to serve as guest editor to this special evolutionary issue of Politics and Culture. Michael and I share an interest in integrating evolutionary research with literary and cultural theory. While discussing our shared interests, we have identified [...]
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The critical and its anchorage into the social. An introduction to the 2009 winter issue of Politics and Culture
The critical usually finds itself in a difficult relationship with the social. Its strong investment into social change renders it both necessary and uncomfortable. Its necessity originates from the impossibility to ultimately stabilise and saturate the social, which generates spaces for difference and diversity, which in turn are the conditions of possibility for dissensus. Although [...]
Max Haiven, Food, finance, crisis, catalyst: global capitalism and the revolutionary value of food sovereignty
I. The problem, once again… At risk of being obviously unfashionable or unfashonably obvious, the problem with food in the world today is capitalism. Particularly, it is a form of capitalism that imposes uniquely local but ubiquitously global forms of market sovereignty over more and more aspects of our lives. Food, which names the spectre [...]
Scott Stoneman, Learning to learn from the food crisis: consumer sovereignty and the restructuring of subjectivity
“In every case, the geography of anger is not a simple map of action and reaction, minoritization and resistance, nested hierarchies of space and site, neat sequences of cause and effect. Rather, these geographies are the spatial outcome of complex interactions between faraway events and proximate fears, between old histories and new provocations, between rewritten [...]
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