Read the boundary 2 special issue “Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences” (volume 48, issue 4), which features Runa Bandyopadhya’s essay “Pataquericalism: Quantum Coherence between the East and West,” among others.
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Mandela's Reflections: Meditations and Interventions from the b2 Collective
Editor’s Note
from Paul Bové
_Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. Tony Bogues, a member of the boundary 2 Collective, was in South Africa, watching the endless coverage of the news and of Mandela’s life. Bogues had met Mandela during his time with the Jamaican government of Michael Manley, and he has spent considerable time working in South Africa, especially in Cape Town, on questions of freedom, archives, African and African Diaspora intellectual history, and political thought.
At least one generation of intellectuals had stood against apartheid and reflected on Mandela as a political figure of freedom and liberation. Mandela never produced anything equivalent to the political writings of a Gramsci, Fanon, or Césaire. Because of the media and the global support for the struggles he led, Mandela acquired a resonance with effects across the globe. His career, with all its changes, posed challenges for thinking about politics.
It seemed right that boundary 2 should take notice of Mandela and his influence. We decided to gather responses to Mandela as a political figure. b2 issued a call for very brief papers from several spots on the globe and from different generations. Our contributors have given us reason to feel this attempt was a success.
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Mandela's Reflections
At least one generation of intellectuals had stood against apartheid and reflected on Mandela as a political figure of freedom and liberation. Mandela never produced anything equivalent to the political writings of a Gramsci, Fanon, or Césaire. Because of the media and the global support for the struggles he led, Mandela acquired a resonance with effects across the globe. His career, with all its changes, posed challenges for thinking about politics.
Editor’s Note from Paul Bové
Preface by Anthony Bogues
Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale / The Cry of Hypocrisy: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Discomforts by Hortense Spillers
The Mandela Enigma by Wlad Godzich
Mandela, Charisma, and Compromise by Joe Cleary
Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters by Colin Dayan
Or, The Whale by Jim Merod
Malaysian Mandela by Masturah Alatas
Mandela, Tunisia, and I by Mohamed-Salah Omri
Nelson Mandela by Ruth Y. Y. Hung
Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Politics of Moral Force by Anthony Bogues
Mandela’s Wholeness, Perhaps Infinite by Dawn Lundy Martin
[untitled] by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Mandela’s Gift by Sobia Saleem
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Summer 2014: Volume 41, Number 2
In Memoriam of Stuart McPhail Hall
Each crisis provides an opportunity to shift the direction of popular thinking instead of simply mirroring the right’s populist touch or pursuing short-term opportunism. The left…must adopt a more courageous, innovative, “educative” and path-breaking strategic approach if they are to gain ground.
–Stuart Hall and Alan O’Shea, “Common-sense Neoliberalism”
Summer 2014: Volume 41, Number 2
Intervention / Mandela’s Reflections
Editor’s Note from Paul Bové:
…We decided to gather responses to Mandela as a political figure. b2 issued a call for very brief papers from several spots on the globe and from different generations. Our contributors have given us reason to feel this attempt was a success.Preface by Anthony Bogues
Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale / The Cry of Hypocrisy: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Discomforts by Hortense Spillers
The Mandela Enigma by Wlad GodzichMandela, Charisma, and Compromise by Joe Cleary
Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters by Colin Dayan
Or, The Whale by Jim Merod
Malaysian Mandela by Masturah Alatas
Mandela, Tunisia, and I by Mohamed-Salah Omri
Nelson Mandela by Ruth Y. Y. Hung
Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Politics of Moral Force by Anthony Bogues
Mandela’s Wholeness, Perhaps Infinite by Dawn Lundy Martin
[untitled] by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Mandela’s Gift by Sobia Saleem
_____Three Models of Emergency Politics by Bonnie Honig
Democracy: An Unfinished Project by Susan Buck-Morss
The Future of Reading? Memories and Thoughts toward a Genealogical Approach by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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b2 Interview
History Unabridged: An Interview with Stefan Collini with Jeffrey J. Williams_____
Articles
King Kong in America by Arif DirlikHow Global Capitalism Transforms Deng Xiaoping by Ruth Y. Y. Hung
Is Dasein People? Heidegger According to Haugeland by Taylor Carman
It’s Only the End of the World by Ben Conisbee Baer
Passive Aggressive: Scalia and Garner on Interpretation by Andrew Koppelman
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Spring 2014: Second-Hand Europe
Spring 2014: Volume 41, Number 1
Second-Hand Europe: a special issue edited by Wlad Godzich and Anita Starosta
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Wlad Godzich
Sekend-Hand EuropeYuri Andrukhovych
From Twelve CirclesAnita Starosta
Imagine an Albanian Joyce: An Interview with Yuri AndrukhovychAleš Erjavec
Eastern Europe, Art, and the Politics of RepresentationMiglena Nikolchina
Inverted Forms and Heterotopian Homonymy: Althusser, Mamardashvili, and the Problem of “Man”Ivaylo Ditchev
Spaces of Desire: Consumer Bound and UnboundAnikó Imre
Balázs Trencsényi
Beyond Liminality? The Kulturkampf of the Early 2000s in East Central EuropeAlexander Etkind
Post-Soviet Russia: The Land of the Oil Curse, Pussy Riot, and Magical HistoricismZhivka Valiavicharska
Anita Starosta
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Cover photo:
Dwarf graffiti by Orange Alternative, 1982,
Marszałkowska Street at People’s Army
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(re)Introducing Nergis Erturk, b2er
Professor Nergis Erturk of Penn State (nue5@psu.edu) has joined the editorial collective of boundary 2. Professor Erturk will develop articles, reviews, and special issues in her areas of interest, namely, (post)colonial histories and theories of language and writing practices; Marxism, communism, and translation (including questions concerning Soviet Orientalisms, language politics of the Comintern, and literary communism); critical regionalism in west and central Asia; Turkey and contemporary cultures of resistance. With Özge Serin (Columbia, Anthropology), Nergis is currently editing a special issue on “Marxism, Communism, and Translation.”
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José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013): A Collage
José Esteban Muñoz’s sudden passing in December 2013 has saddened many and sent shock waves through the queer theory, performance studies, queer of color and critical race studies communities. A prolific author, editor, beloved teacher and mentor, and Professor of Performance Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Cuban-born José Muñoz made vibrant contributions to the intellectual life of our era and to the personal and professional lives of many individuals in our communities. To honor his life and work, I asked several of José’s close friends and colleagues to contribute a brief essay focusing on a specific idea, passage, or personal memory and share with us what Muñoz’s work has meant to them. What follows is a rich personal collage of love, wonder, grief, appreciation, and admiration for a scholar and a friend whose work and life will continue to resonate and inspire beyond his death.
– Petra Dierkes-Thrun
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Second-Hand Europe: a special b2 issue
Spring 2014: Volume 41, Number 1
Second-Hand Europe: a special issue edited by Wlad Godzich and Anita Sarosta
_________________________________________________________________________Contents
Wlad Godzich
Sekend-Hand EuropeYuri Andrukhovych
From Twelve CitiesAnita Starosta
Imagine an Albanian Joyce: An Interview with Yuri AndrukhovychAleš Erjavec
Eastern Europe, Art, and the Politics of RepresentationMiglena Nikolchina
Inverted Forms and Heterotopian Homonymy: Althusser, Mamardashvili, and the Problem of “Man”Ivaylo Ditchev
Spaces of Desire: Consumer Bound and UnboundAnikó Imre
Balázs Trencsényi
Beyond Liminality? The Kulturkampf of the Early 2000s in East Central EuropeAlexander Etkind
Post-Soviet Russia: The Land of the Oil Curse, Pussy Riot, and Magical HistoricismZhivka Valiavicharska
Anita Starosta
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Cover photo:
Dwarf graffiti by Orange Alternative, 1982,
Marszałkowska Street at People’s Army
Avenue, Warsaw, photo by Tomasz SikorskiBrowse the boundary 2 archive here.
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Special Issue on Eastern Europe
With all that’s happening now to the European Project, nothing will be more timely and important than this special issue. Wlad Godzich and Anita Starosta have been working at it for some time and it’s all coming together now. So, watch this space for news of its availability. And please offer any thoughts you might have. And share, too.
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Antinomies of the Postsecular — Why b2 is not postsecular
A new and controversial special issue, Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013, has just appeared . . . .In his Introduction to b2‘s special issue, Antinomies of the Postsecular, Aamir Mufti explains his and his colleague’s desire to investigate the surrounding philosophy on this modern “return to religion.”