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This book considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal (exodus, desertion, retreat) for radical thinking with contributions from major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies (including Bernard Stiegler, Isabel Lorey, Sara Sharma, Claire Birchall and more).
List of contents
Introduction: Towards a Politics of Withdrawal?
Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois
Chapter 1
Can the Internet be turned off? Infrastructures of Dis-Disconnectivity
Florian Sprenger
Chapter 2
Assemblages of Withdrawal
Clare Birchall
Chapter 3
"You Saw the Cactus Bloom": On the Impossibility of Withdrawal from You
Mél Hogan
Chapter 4
Proof-of-Withdrawal: Finance in the Undercommons
Erik Bordeleau
Chapter 5
Melancholic Retreat: Narratives of Withdrawal in Contemporary Political Theory
Joost de Bloois
Chapter 6
W for Withdrawal: Or, Politics without Personhood
Yasco Horsman
Chapter 7
A Parallel Art of Living
Elena Loizidou
Chapter 8
Withdrawal Symptoms: Refusal, Sabotage, Suspension
Darin Barney
Chapter 9
Withdrawal as Exodus and Strike. Political Strategies for a Presentist Democracy
Isabell Lorey
Chapter 10
On Leaving Academia and the Need to Take Refuge
Pepita Hesselberth
Chapter 11
Detox Politics: Thinking-Healing the Retreat of the Public
Bernard Stiegl
About the author
Pepita Hesselberth is a DFF Laureate and assistant professor of film and digital culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands.Joost de Bloois is assistant professor in the departments of Cultural Analysis and Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the nexus between contemporary culture and politics. He has co-authored two introductions in Cultural Studies (2009, 2010) as well as a volume on the thought of Alain Badiou (with Ernst van den Hemel, 2012). His book on contemporary communisms is forthcoming (2014).
Summary
This book considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal (exodus, desertion, retreat) for radical thinking with contributions from major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies (including Bernard Stiegler, Isabel Lorey, Sara Sharma, Claire Birchall and more).
