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May 16, 2019

Book Excerpt! Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts

“Political Categories proposes nothing less than a new way of thinking about politics and such political ideas and institutions as the state, sovereignty, power, and revolution. The question is how to define what is proper or singular to politics without isolating...

May 15, 2019

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 2)

“Michael Marder’s Political Categories is much more than a book about politics. It takes a step back and looks at the conceptual apparatus we rely on when we talk about politics and engage in it.” ~ Slavoj Žižek, author of Disparities and The Incontinence of...

May 14, 2019

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 1)

“In a political world where simplistic reductions tend to reign, Marder offers a thoughtful reconsideration of categories as offering greater descriptive power and critical complexity than concepts that suppress the specificity of political phenomena. This is an important book that...

February 5, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Post-Fordist Cinema, All the Nations Under Heaven, Political Categories, and more!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Political Categories Thinking Beyond Concepts Michael Marder Post-Fordist Cinema Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture Jeff Menne All the Nations Under Heaven Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised...

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Tag: Political Categories

Book Excerpt! Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 2)

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 1)

New Book Tuesday! Post-Fordist Cinema, All the Nations Under Heaven, Political Categories, and more!