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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. doi:10.1177/1468795X12443535
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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 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Other > Learning and Development Centre | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Classical Sociology | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1468-795X | ||||
| Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.12 | ||||
| Number: | No.2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 256-266 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1468795X12443535 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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