Kirsten Campbell and Brett St Louis (guest editors)
This issue takes the fortieth anniversary of 1968 as an opportunity, not
to look back but instead, to look forward and in particular to explore the
issue of left political possibility. What impact have the political challenges
of the post-68 moment had on affirmative left political projects? Has the
exercising of critical resources towards negation, as in anti-globalization,
consigned progressive politics to the reactive mode of critique? This begs
the question of what possibilities exist for building an emancipatory, affirmative
politics? What is it that we might imagine, create, and organise around,
in principle and in practice, as positive projects?
Essays include evaluations of May ’68 as an expression of radical immanence, the transformations of capitalism, critical conceptions of cosmopolitanism and humanism, the juxtaposition of Paris ’68 and Seattle ’99, and the necessity of utopianism. The issue offers a reassessment of ’68 and its consequences for contemporary left politics.
Also in this issue, articles on Fredric Jameson, and on the fate of Iraq’s archaeological heritage.
Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Kirsten Campbell and Brett St Louis Editorial
Rosi Braidotti The Politics of Radical Immanence: May 1968 as an
Event
Jeremy Gilbert After '68: Narratives of the New Capitalism
Lorenzo C. Simpson Humanism and Cosmopolitanism after '68
Fran Tonkiss New Manifestations: Paris, Seattle and after
Ruth Levitas Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible
Alberto Toscano Review Essay: Beginnings and Ends: For, Against and
Beyond 68
Alexander Dunst Late Jameson, or, after the eternity of the present
Saloni Mathur Art and Empire: On Oil, Antiquities, and the War in
Iraq
REVIEWS
Peter Marcuse Utopian Issues Noortje Marres Space, Politics, And How Experimental
Can One Be?
BOOKNOTES
Rosemary Shirley, Simon Stewart
Contributors:
Rosi Braidotti, Kirsten Campbell, Alexander Dunst, Jeremy Gilbert, Ruth
Levitas, Peter Marcuse, Noortje Marres, Saloni Mathur, Lorenzo C. Simpson,
Brett St Louis, Fran Tonkiss, Alberto Toscano.
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