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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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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