Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social, and economic situation in which we find ourselves today.
The editors argue that we are living in a repetition that must be stopped – if our goal is that the signifier "humanity" remains in the following centuries, the time has come to work in the present. The objective is not to deliver precise or quick answers, but to gather varied voices from different continents, bringing together different languages, ideas, practices, theories, thoughts, and desires. In the words of Yanis Varoufakis, "urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and inspire humanity to realise its potential for authentic freedom." To leave the concept of a manifesto open, the contradictory aspects of the chapters are a subject of the manifesto itself. This is a manifesto of contradictions that reflects our reality as well as our struggles and our aspirations.
This unique anthology will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences interested in critical theory and social change.
Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social and economic situation in which we find ourselves today.
Arvustused
"We share the desire for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and can recognize that its untenable to claim them for ourselves but deny them to others. Together with darker motives like greed and vengeance, we have capacities for empathy, self-control, cognitive faculties that can solve problems, and language, which can share the solutions. These existential challenges, and our species best response to them, are addressed in the book Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles, and Future Change."
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
"The 21st century now has several Manifestos. Manifestos that announce an anti-neoliberal world, a multipolar world, a world of all and for all. A world where all worlds fit."
Emir Sader, Brazilian political scientist, philosopher, academic, and activist
"The interpellation of these "Manifestos" lies basically in not resigning in the face of the common condition of the struggles. We must cross the particularity of the different struggles and articulate them in a new international project that goes beyond sectorial and identity-based demands."
Jorge Alemán, Argentine psychoanalyst, militant, and poet
1. Introduction: Why Global Manifestos for the 21st Century?
2.
Foreword: Urgently Needed: A New Manifesto for Fun and Freedom PART ONE
Towards a Historical View Without Retrospective Romanticism or Future
Idealization
3. Sublation and Dislocation: A False Choice
4. Emancipation
Through a New Global Perspective
5. Manifesto: Commonism Now!
6. A Left of
the Passage
7. Universality in the Middle: A Buddhist Post-Global Perspective
8. Manifesto in Favor of Freedom of Thought and Tolerance to Dissent
9. The
Lessons of Cultural Humility: From a Struggle of Universalities to the
Sublation of Existing Systems PART TWO Philosophical Footprints of the
Present to Build a Here-and- Now
10. United by Touch and Breath: For a
Co-ontological Revolution
11. Volcanic Lakes and Hallucinatory Vegetation: A
Disaster to Think About the Future
12. Epidemic Refraction: A Critical
Outlook Echoing Universal Explications Through Microcosmic Mayhem
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14. Beyond the Permanent Crisis
15. Manifesto for a
New Grammar of Liberation
16. The Road to the Scaffold: The Struggle of
Nicolas de Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges for Gender Equality
17. The
Political Challenges of Our Century in Education PART THREE Struggle of
Universalities, Towards a Global Movement
18. Crisis-Impasse, Centrality of
Periphery and the Necessity of International Organization
19. Europes
Malignant Supplements, I Know. But Nevertheless
20. Is Latin America a
Reflection of the Europe Avant-garde Model?
21. Brexit for All!: Why the
Left Should (Urgently) Rediscover the Concept of Sovereignty
22. Decolonial
Feminism: A Political Proposal from the Global South
23. Universalities: The
Power of Lack
24. Austerity, Brexit, Covid: Short Circuits and a New Identity
for Wales
25. No More Manifestos! iek Said Europe?
26. From Balkanized
Universal(s) to Archipelagic Multiverse
27. War in the State and the State in
War
28. Can Europe Be a Manifesto? The Role of Europe in Korean American
Literature
29. Lapulapus Kris and Panglima Awangs First Circumnavigation of
the World PART FOUR Distinction or Difference: Letting Go of Confrontation
and Starting Co-Construction
30. Where the Individual Was, the Self Must
Come!
31. The Patipolitical Body
32. This is a Shitty Government, But it is
My Government: Love, Power, War in Times of Collapsed Horizons and
Historys Limitation
33. The Cosmopolitan Left Against Neoliberalism,
Liberfascism and Cyberalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Latin American
Approach to the Current Global Political Situation Since Post-Communism
34.
Reflections from the Theory of the Encryption of Power: Energeia and the
Manifestation of the Non-Being
35. The Formation of a Necro-State:
Biopolitical Effects of Neoliberal Capitalism in Contemporary Ecuador
36.
Real Subsumption, a Problem Rendered
37. Interiority and Exteriority in the
Space of Capital
38. Epilogue: Contradictions Between Irreconcilable
Manifestos
Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo is the author of columns, essays, and academic articles, including iek: Cómo Pensar con Claridad en un Mundo al Réves? (2023) and Psychoanalysis Between Philosophy and Politics, co-edited with Slavoj iek (2023).
Brian Willems is associate professor of literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia. He is most recently the author of Sham Ruins: A Users Guide (Routledge, 2022).
Slavoj iek is director of the International Humanities Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London, and senior research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. He is a lecturer at numerous universities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and South Korea.
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