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Refusing the terms of non-existence, breaking their constraints : John Holloway, cracking capitalism and the meaning of revolution today
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Garland, Christian. (2012) Refusing the terms of non-existence, breaking their constraints : John Holloway, cracking capitalism and the meaning of revolution today. Journal of Classical Sociology, Vol.12 (No.2). pp. 256-266. ISSN 1468-795X
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795X12443535
Abstract
This essay seeks to contribute to theorizing the (anti) politics of refusal of the material and abstract limitations imposed by the non-existence of life under capitalism, with special reference to the work of John Holloway, and his recent concept of ‘the crack’, the radical confluence of resistant subjectivity and a radically different mode-of-doing. The essay seeks to conceptualize a negative ontology, the standpoint of critique and resistant subjectivity, negativity toward the given, the existent and ‘that which is’. The essay attempts to show that in this active ‘doing’ – what Marx identified as ‘species-being’ (Gattungswesen) or creative human essence – human beings choose to do other than what is demanded by money and power, which is itself the re-appropriation of doing. The essay seeks to be one such contribution in that direction.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Other > Learning and Development Centre |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Classical Sociology |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1468-795X |
| Official Date: | 2012 |
| Volume: | Vol.12 |
| Number: | No.2 |
| Page Range: | pp. 256-266 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1177/1468795X12443535 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/49488 |
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