While Hayek theorized a subject who was actively invested in the competitive " game, " the premise of this investment was submission to the rules of the market and acceptance of its outcomes as a form of fate.
Powerless companions or fellow travellers? Human rights and the neoliberal assault on post-colonial economic justice more. LSF offers a particularly stark example of a more general phenomenon — the uptake of neoliberal ideas by human rights and humanitarian NGOs in the period of their simultaneous rise. Foucault reminded Bazargan of their meeting the previous year in Iran, when Bazargan was Foucault — who was in the country to report on the revolutionary upheavals for an Italian newspaper — recalled that their meeting occurred immediately after Black Friday, when protestors were machine-gunned on the streets of Tehran.
Foucault visited Iran one year after the election of US President Jimmy Carter, who made human rights central to his moralized foreign policy. Carter's human rights rhetoric emboldened the Iranian opposition, and when he announced a visit to Tehran in opposition members addressed a letter asking for help to defend human rights.
One year and a revolution later, Bazargan, the former head of the human rights committee, was Prime Minister and the new Islamic Republic had executed more than two hundred opponents in the past two months. More Info: Thanos Zartaloudis ed. Thanos Zartaloudis ed. The language of human rights is under fire on the right and the left. While right-wing authoritarian leaders frame civil rights and anti-discrimination agendas as the exclusive concern of cosmopolitan elites, left-wing critics have argued While right-wing authoritarian leaders frame civil rights and anti-discrimination agendas as the exclusive concern of cosmopolitan elites, left-wing critics have argued that the human rights movement has ignored economic inequality and legitimised military interventions that further neoliberal ends.
Faced with mounting criticisms, human rights NGOs and advocates have recently turned their attention to social and economic rights. Friedrich Hayek's account of " spontaneous order " has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to progressive democratic theorists, who are wary of the hubris of state planning and attracted to possibilities for self-organization, and to Foucaultians, who have long counseled political theory to cut off the King's head.
A spontaneous social order, organized by an invisible hand, would appear to dispense with arbitrary power and foster creativity and individual liberty. This article challenges this view by highlighting the centrality of submission to Hayek's account of spontaneous order.
It shows that Hayek struggles to obscure the providentialism underpinning the account of social order he derives from Adam Ferguson and the Scottish Enlightenment. Nonetheless, his own account of spontaneous order relies on faith in the workings of the market, and submission to unintelligible market forces. Agamben's Philosophical Lineage: Karl Marx more. It is in the course of this oscillation that Agamben has clarified his own accounts of both political subjectivity and inoperativity.
Human Rights and the Collateral Damage of Neoliberalism. Theory and Event more. This is my contribution to the twentieth anniversary edition of Theory and Event. This is how the editors describe the idea: "The first is a look back at the founding of the journal through the implications of the present. In other words, we wanted the perspectives of those for whom the journal has always been present.
As a gesture toward and recognition of the past, and inspired by a conversation with Wendy Brown and William Connolly about the emergence of the journal, we asked a number of such theorists to select an essay from the first five volumes of the journal and engage its insights and influences.
As the reader will quickly realize, these are neither summaries nor histories, but continued engagements with the persistent issues raised by the original work. The Responsibility to Protect and the Persistence of Colonialism more. In a brief book review published in Edward Said drew attention to a new sympathy towards classical imperialism amongst intellectuals. Central to this revisionism, Said suggested, was the view that anti-colonial resistance had bred a barbaric, fanatical, anti-Westernism, for which the West itself could not be held responsible.
Against this background, this chapter turns to the postcolonial politics of human rights intervention Against this background, this chapter considers the contemporary politics of human rights intervention. It suggests that the view that colonialism should be bracketed in apportioning responsibility for violence and insecurity in de-colonized states re-occurs in contemporary arguments about human rights and the responsibility to protect.
More Info: edited by Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Legitimacy and the shadows of universalism: a response to Meine's 'Debating legitimacy transnationally' more. Attending to these Attending to these shadows, Liu argues, may enable us to grasp the discursive structure of human rights in recent history, and to move that discourse in a less parochial direction Liu , In opposition to this naturalizing move, I suggest that close attention to the debates that preceded the UDHR allow us to resist the utilization of the language of human rights to make the possessive individualism of contemporary neoliberal capitalism appear eternal.
As NATO leaders and anti-war protestors prepared In The Kingdom of the Glory, in the midst of outlining what he sees as a specifically Christian account of governing as constant praxis, Giorgio Agamben turns his attention to a text that has preoccupied him for several decades: The In The Kingdom of the Glory, in the midst of outlining what he sees as a specifically Christian account of governing as constant praxis, Giorgio Agamben turns his attention to a text that has preoccupied him for several decades: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of Karl Marx.
In a context in which austerity measures are commonly characterized as an abrogation of national sovereignty, this paper suggests that Agamben's account of economic theology enables us to sharpen our understandings of the contemporary In a context in which austerity measures are commonly characterized as an abrogation of national sovereignty, this paper suggests that Agamben's account of economic theology enables us to sharpen our understandings of the contemporary relationship between sovereign power and economic government.
By understanding the relation between the exclusionary politics of sovereignty and the technocratic oikonomia that is subjecting populations to a new form of poverty, it suggests we may be able to begin to challenge both simultaneously, and undercut the nostalgia for sovereignty that characterizes much opposition to trans-national forms of economic government.
How is the trajectory of his late thought bound up with this inverted conversion, this renunciation of the revolutionary idea? And, more importantly, what are the consequences of this demise of the idea of revolution for politics itself? Secondly, he suggests that the contemporary fate of human rights discourses was prepared at the origins of modernity when rights declarations enabled the passage from a divinely ordained sovereignty to a national one, thus enmeshing life in the order of the state.
It suggests that the Haitian Revolution opened up political possibilities that are obscured by Agamben's account of the trajectory of rights claims, and argues that these possibilities remain to be redeemed in the present.
Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene more. This paper suggests that Foucault saw the new activist humanitarianism of the s as heralding the possibility of a new form of right liberated from sovereignty. Justifying this refusal, he made clear that he did not want to be seen to be calling for war. In the Coming Just as our room is now, so it will be in the world to come; where our baby sleeps now, there too it will sleep in the other world.
And the clothes we wear in this world, those too we will wear there. Everything will be as it is now, just a little different. Nonetheless, in offering a vision of the world to come that is intimately connected to our world, it seems to foreshadow the possibility of changing our world, even if, as it were, only a little. And yet, as this tale was passed down by tradition, and ultimately passed from Gershom Scholem to Benjamin to Bloch, the question of the nature of the change that would be required, and that of the agency that could accomplish it, received different, and often contradictory, emphases.
All that is necessary to establish this new world, Bloch suggests, is the slight displacement of a stone, a cup or a brush. Over the past decade, as human rights discourses have increasingly served to legitimize state militarism, a growing number of thinkers have sought to engage critically with the human rights project and its anthropological foundations Over the past decade, as human rights discourses have increasingly served to legitimize state militarism, a growing number of thinkers have sought to engage critically with the human rights project and its anthropological foundations.
In contrast to Ranciere, I will argue that far from sharing the position of those thinkers, like Arendt, who seek to respond to the modern erosion of the borders between politics and life by resurrecting earlier forms of separation, Agamben sees the collapse of this border as the condition of possibility of a new, non-juridical politics. Bartleby, a legal scribe who does not write, is best known for the formula More Info: Theory and Event Publisher: muse.
The audience at this elite university overflowed The audience at this elite university overflowed the auditorium into a nearby room, watching through a video link. More Info: Overland, In a letter to his patron Lord Chesterfield, Johnson outlined the struggle he saw facing him, the possible futility of which he acknowledged, in distinctly biopolitical terms. The prince, Foucault notes, must cure the ills of the city, while the doctor must give his opinion on the ills of the soul as well as the body.
Sovereign, doctor, lexicographer—merely an analogy, perhaps, but one which, nonetheless, suggests that the attempt to impose order on language is not without its bio political significance. No Credible Photographic Interest: Photography restrictions and surveillance in a time of terror more. This article examines the consequences for the res publica of the simultaneous increase in state surveillance and the restriction of the right to take photographs in public ushered in by the War on Terror.
We draw on Ariella Azoulay's We draw on Ariella Azoulay's theorization of what she terms the 'civil contract of photography', or the possibility for non-state civic interaction allowed by the invention of the camera.
The article asks whether these developments signify an attempt to monopolize the decision as to who constitutes the citizenry of photography, and also considers artistic and political responses to surveillance and photography restrictions in Australia and the United Kingdom.
More Info: Co-authored with Daniel Palmer. Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. Publication Name: Philosophy of Photography. Its Silent Working Was a Delusion more. Contesting Realities more. This paper, in contrast, will examine what is missed in the rush to accept membership of the reality based community. It will suggest that the advisor's comments express something that was once a central tenet of the left: the belief that political action is capable of transforming reality.
Today, on the left, this belief has been all but abandoned in the face of a seemingly unstoppable onslaught of free market capitalism and increasingly repressive state power. This paper will ask what it would mean today to begin to re-imagine political action as capable of remaking the world.
Law, Crisis, Revolution more. Australian Feminist Law. Publication Date: Jan 1, Alison Ross and Dr. Nina Philadelphoff-Puren. Examiners : Prof. Eric L. Santner, University of Chicago and Prof. Rob Watts. Political Philosophy Contemporary European Philosophy. Philosophy of War. Book Chapters Whyte J, , ''The king reigns but he doesn't govern': Thinking sovereignty and government with Agamben, Foucault and Rousseau', in Agamben and Law , pp.
Whyte J, , '"Always on top"? Books Whyte J, , 'The king reigns but he doesn? Whyte J, , 'The work of men is not durable: History, Haiti and the rights of man', in , pp.
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