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Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism

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Post date September 7, 2013
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Special Issue Editor(s): Jordana Rosenberg, Amy Villarejo
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 18, Issue 1 (2012)

Extending the recent rapprochement among queer studies, Marxist theory, and political economics, this timely issue responds to the current crisis of capitalism. Contributors consider how methodologies of queer studies are specially poised to reveal the global, historical, and social dimensions of capitalist economic relations. Using queer hermeneutical tools in combination with globalization studies, secularization studies, and queer-of-color critique, contributors examine global economic history and the ideological collusion of capitalist production and biological reproduction. With a special emphasis on the regulation and policing of sexuality, the issue explores the assertion that capitalism is only made possible by systems of racial, sexual, and national exploitation, and recuperation from periods of crisis depends on the increasingly violent reassertion of those forms of exploitation.

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La Aesthesis Trans-Moderna en La Zona Fronteriza Eurasiática y el Anti-sublime Decolonial

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Post date July 22, 2013
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Madina Tlostanova

El artículo estudia la aesthesis transmoderna en relación con la agenda de liberar la esfera estética de los mitos de la modernidad occidental. La autora ofrece un resumen crítico de las principales corrientes estéticas occidentales frente al anti-sublime decolonial como modelo alternativo analizado en el artículo. Se presta especial atención al mecanismo de este sublime, fundado en una hermenéutica pluritópica y una “comunidad de sentido” decolonial que une a quienes fueron marcados por la “herida colonial”. El artículo se enfoca en la reformulación decolonial de problemáticas estéticas usuales, como la correlación de belleza y aesthesis, la relación de conocimiento y arte, de la esfera moral y la estética, etc. Finalmente, una larga sección se dedica a la aesthesis decolonial de la zona fronteriza euroasiática, los territorios en el Este (Asia Central) y Sur (Cáucaso) del continente euroasiático, que antes eran colonias rusas/soviéticas, y producen hoy instancias complejas de arte decolonial en las obras de Saule Suleymenova, Zorito Dorzhiev y otros.

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El concepto de “racismo” en Michael Foucault y Frantz Fanon: ¿Teorizar desde la zona del ser o desde la zona del no-ser?

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Post date June 1, 2013
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Ramón Grosfoguel

Este artículo trata acerca de la emergencia histórica del racismo en el sistema-mundo y la definición del concepto de racismo. El mismo discute como contrapunteo la visión del racismo en Michel Foucault y la de Frantz Fanon. Este escrito provee una discusión acerca de las implicaciones epistémicas descoloniales de la teoría de Fanon acerca del racismo.

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Tidal Magazine – Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy

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Post date May 13, 2013
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There is no radical action without radical thought. Tidal offers a space for the emergence and discussion of movement-generated theory and practice. It is a strategic platform that weaves together the voices of on-the-ground organizers with those of long-standing theorists to explore the radical possibilities sparked by the occupations of Tunis’ Kasbah, Tahrir, Sol, Syntagma, Zuccotti and their aftermaths.

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The Emergence of the Political Subject

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Post date April 22, 2013
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by Marina Grzinic, March, 2013, Skopje / http://emancipationofresistance.wordpress.com/grzinic/

I took part in the conference in Skopje entitled Emancipation of the resistance, organized by NGO Kontrapunkt in collaboration with many partners in the region. The point of departure at the conference regarding resistance made me think what is the concept of the resistance today? I connected this question with memory and history, and as well with the specific context of Macedonia that was part of the space of former Yugoslavia.

On such a basis memory and history have to be re-thought in connection to the wars in the Balkan, former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and in relation to the aftermath of the wars’ “monumentalizations” in the time of global capitalism and of the construction of the EU as “Fortress Europe.” My thesis is that the ways of monumentalization or de-monumentalization of the war in the 1990s in the Balkan, former Yugoslavia (Macedonia is not excluded from this process, as we have to think of the 2001 events in Macedonia), have several paradoxical, pathological and tragic faces in the political and social realm of global capitalism.