- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book proposes a new mode of dialectical resistance, countering notions of the "state of exception" embedded in theories of the "Political" from Thomas Hobbes to Carl Schmitt. Apter advances a critical model of micro-politics, or "politics with a small 'p,'" that offers a way of representing a politics that has generally eluded our conceptual grasp, and that has been unintelligible or resistant to classical political theory. Confronting us with the realization that we really do not know what politics is, where it begins and ends, or how its micro-events should be described, this experimental glossary opens the possibility of confronting the contingent and immaterial conditions of politicking that contribute to disturbance and interference within the institutional structures of our capitalo-parliamentarist systems of rule.
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Index
1 percent, 120, 233, 234, 237, 238, 243–6
99 percent, 234, 243
Adbusters (magazine), 242
Adorno, Theodor, 133n57
aesthetics, 4, 5, 132, 180, 230, 236
affluenza, 213
Africa, 41, 123
Agamben, Giorgio, 1, 5, 23, 34, 48, 220
bare life, 79
Bartleby, 116, 124, 129, 130n47
Coming Community, The (Agamben), 28
Homo Sacer, 2
Ahmed, Sarah, 5
Akin, Todd, 84
Alaska, 169
Algeria, 54, 129, 160
alienation, 22, 49, 53, 75, 108, 223
Alliez, Eric, 191n44
Althusser, Louis, 109, 140, 205, 214, 215
Altman, Robert, 6n9, 257, 258
amāra, 111–12
Andler, Charles, 68
Anidjar, Gil, 11
Anonymous, 9
Antelme, Robert, 129
anticapitalism, 108, 120, 205, 246
Antifa, 123
apartheid, 69, 141
aporia, 5, 31–4, 87, 112, 118, 122–4, 129
Apprill, Olivier, 47n30
Arabic (language), 107, 108, 111, 112
Arab Spring, 27, 109, 123
d’Arboussier, Gabriel, 67
d’Arcais, Paolo Flores, 13
architecture, 40, 47, 49, 54, 119, 214
Arendt, Hannah, 1, 4, 23, 30–31, 34, 140
Aristotle, 2n2, 30, 83, 86, 140, 219
Arnaud, Claude, 203–4
Artforum (journal), 242
Arthur, Christopher J., 231
Art Newspaper (journal), 240
Ascher, Ivan, 224, 230
Athanasiu, Athena, 64
Athenian democracy, 102, 10...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Unexceptional Politics
- I. Resistant to Political Theory
- II. Scenes of Obstruction
- III. Political Fictions
- IV. Economies of Existence
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index