UnSafe Thoughts

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Focus on the U.S. elections, populism, cultures of intimidation and bullying, and higher education

Roddey Reid


    • Oct 1, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 52m AVG DURATION
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    Podcast: "Affect & Activism in the Trump Era," Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (52 mins.)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2018 52:28


    SUMMARY- intimidation as a political and theoretical problem- traumatic lessons- taking political violence seriously- political intimidation vs. everyday bullying- from political tool to an entire political program & form of governing- how it works- affective challenges to civic action and activism- resistance: a nimble politics of anticipation- creating our own affective facts on the groundTHEORETICAL FRAMEMy thinking has been in conversation with the work of Étienne Balibar on citizenship, globalization, extreme violence and the State, Wendy Brown’s deep inquiry into the political project of neoliberalism of “dedemocratization,” Judith Butler’s and Brian Massumi’s respective writings on lawless sovereignty, indefinite detention, and the affective politics of preemption in the endless War on Terror, and Corey Robin’s book on fear as an operative concept in the liberal political tradition.

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