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For Scott, the anticipated futures of anticolonialism exist today as exhausted ruins. Benjamin, too, was concerned with “the specific way the present generation inherited the “failed material” of the past” as ruins: “The ruin … is the form in which the wish images of the past century appear, as rubble, in the present” (Buck-Morss 1991, 281, 212). Benjamin did not devote attention to the question of colonialism or anticolonial struggle. Nor did Marx, yet his thought proved fertile for generations of anticolonial intellectuals. Fanon’s (1967b, 31) response was to point out that when confronted with the colonial problem, “Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched.” In the spirit of anticolonial thought, which drew widely on all available intellectual resources, I propose that, with a bit of stretching, Benjamin’s work might assist anticolonial critique for our times.
Time, History, Politics: Anticolonial Constellations
Branwen Gruffydd Jones
It is this subordination of the state to externally-imposed targets and assignments that links Höhn’s theory to contemporary neoliberalism. Contrary to popular belief, neoliberals don’t seek to destroy the state; they know full well that without state there is no market. Rather, they want to invert the relationship of power between the market and the state. Not a market in the service of the state, but a state in the service of the market. Just as for Höhn the state is merely a mechanism equipped to achieve certain ends, so too for neoliberalism the state is a company that serves other companies – an entity that provides a service to be assessed in terms of the parameters of private enterprise (profitability, flexibility, best practices, benchmarking).
Rule by Target
Marco D'Eramo
Something ungoverned has to fend for itself – it is not immunized, not sine cura – and at the same time it is left unruled, without arché.
Being up for grabs: on speculative anarcheology
Hilan Bensusan
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