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FranГ§ois Laruelle differentiates nonphilosophy from other forms of French critical theory.

Theodore Martin explores the attractions of antisociality in literature and life, citing such novelists as Patricia Highsmith and Richard Wright. Joshua Clover argues for the importance of Marx and Fanon in understanding how people are alienated and subjugated. Whatever its form-he identifies various strains-the Big No offers power against systems of oppression. In his Introduction, Kennan Ferguson sums up the concept of the вЂњBig No,вЂќ arguing for its political importance. Here leading scholars traverse the wide range of political action when вЂњnoвЂќ is in the picture, analyzing topics such as collective action, antisocialism, empirical science, the negative and the affirmative in Deleuze and Derrida, the вЂњrealвЂќ and the вЂњclone,вЂќ Native sovereignty, and Afropessimism. What does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say вЂњnoвЂќ? Against the ubiquitous demands for positive solutions, action-oriented policies, and optimistic compromises, The Big NoВ refuses to play.

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Our fifth volume in the Center for 21 st Century Studies series with the University of Minnesota Press was released in January 2022: The Big No.Д®dited by UWM Professor Kennan Ferguson (Political Science), this volume originates from our 2017 conference of the same name. Naomi Paik, U of Illinois, Chicago Maureen Ryan, U of South Carolina Saskia Sassen, Columbia U.

academy.Д¬ontributors: Neel Ahuja, U of California, Santa Cruz Aneesh Aneesh, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Lisa Bhungalia, Kent State U Jennifer Doyle, U of California, Riverside Annie McClanahan, U of California, Irvine Andrea Miller, Florida Atlantic U Mark Neocleous, Brunel U London A. military forces the history of the concept of insecurity and the securitization of finance racialized urban development in Augusta, Georgia AmazonвЂ™s Mechanical Turk and the consequences of the Marie Kondo method and the intricate politics of sexual harassment in the U.S. The contributorsвЂ™ analyses include the securitization of nongovernmental aid to Palestine, Bangladeshi climate refugees, and the privatization of U.S.

Unique in its wide disciplinary breadth and variety of topics and methodological approaches-from intellectual history and cultural critique to case studies, qualitative ethnography, and personal narrative- InsecurityВ is written predominantly from the viewpoint of the United States. The essays illuminate how attempts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, making insecurity the default state of life today. Our sixth volume in the Center for 21 st Century Studies series with the University of Minnesota Press was released in January 2022: Insecurity.Д®dited by UWM Professor and former C21 Director Richard Grusin (English), this volume originates from our 2019 conference of the same name.Д¬hallenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, political, and social life in the West. The books in our current series with the University of Minnesota Press, and in our earlier series, 21st Century Studies and Theories of Contemporary Culture, with Indiana University Press originate from conferences sponsored by C21 or are authored by scholars affiliated with the Center. C21вЂ™s broad range of publications confirms its leadership in the academic community in the United States and abroad.