Iain Mackenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 225727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Mackenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENZIE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0540-5288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who? How and How Much? When and Where? On Why We Need to Be Pragmatic about Critique
As critique appears to have run out of steam, become a culprit in the culture wars, and a source of capitalization in the marketplace of social media prestige, the following discussion embraces these dynamics not as epiphenomena to be overcome but as critical styles that can be restyled within a consequentialist and pragmatist frame. Dramatizing critique in this way shifts the methodological focus away from the redemptive gesture that guides the …
Critique in the Age of Indifference
In After Finitude , Meillassoux asks an epoch-defining question: how can we criticize both ideological dogmatism and skeptical fanaticism if the rise of skeptical fanaticism is an effect of the Kantian critical philosophy one must employ against ideological dogmatism? Meillassoux's answer is to argue in favor of thought's ability to access the absolute necessity of contingency. Agamben and Laruelle give an alternative answer. Although very differ…
Totalizing institutions, critique and resistance
After Possession
Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object has been framed primarily as a contribution to object oriented metaphysics. In this article, I shall explicate and defend four claims that bring it closer to the modern critical tradition: 1) that Garcia’s Form and Object can be read, profitably, within the tradition of reflection upon the nature of possessions, self-possession and possessiveness; 2) that to read the book in this way is to see Garcia as the French…
Chapter 1: From the Truth about Politics to the Politics of Truth
Chapter 5: Resistance in Control Societies
Chapter 4: The Militant Subject of a Political Truth
Chapter 2: Truth and Power
Introduction: A Time to Think and Act Differently?
Chapter 3: Learning to Resist
Conclusion: How to Think and Act Differently
Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou
Creative Practices/Resistant Acts
In the opening of this special issue, we invite readers to consider, through the articles presented, how various modes of artistic expression and creative acts of resistance can lead to a better understanding of the nature and implications of political and social revolt, and how a focus on creative practices can be part of the wider debate in a time of uncertainty and unrest. The issue examines the important intersection between creative practice…
Creative Practices/Resistant Acts
In the opening of this special issue, we invite readers to consider, through the articles presented, how various modes of artistic expression and creative acts of resistance can lead to a better understanding of the nature and implications of political and social revolt, and how a focus on creative practices can be part of the wider debate in a time of uncertainty and unrest. The issue examines the important intersection between creative practice…
Poststructuralism: What Happened
Drama Out of a Crisis? Poststructuralism and the Politics of Everyday Life
Time and again we have been told that poststructuralism is in crisis. Poststructuralism, we hear, is ontologically exhausted, epistemologically and normatively confused, and politically irrelevant to the contemporary economic and institutional conditions that have already domesticated, assimilated and recuperated it. While there is clearly merit and provocation in such critiques, for us, they underestimate the extent to which poststructuralist co…
Marxism, Religion and Ideology: Themes from David McLellan
Marxism, Religion and Ideology
The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what it’s achieved and where it’s going GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748641222','ISBN:9780748653690','ISBN:9780748653713']); Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically …
Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari
This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis
Dramatization as method in political theory
Reflections on time and politics, Nathan Widder
What is a Political Event
What is a Political Event? Iain MacKenzie (bio) One of the central, and well understood, tasks of political theory is to debate the meaning of political events by incorporating them within competing interpretive frameworks. This implies a more fundamental, though not well understood, task; namely, establishing the nature of political events.1 It is more fundamental on two grounds: a) if we do not understand the nature of political events then we …
The idea of pure critique
What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference? This question addresses core themes in modern, post-Kantian and European philosophy, challenging theory's resignation in the face of contemporary political and economic formations. If indifference is to be overcome, critique must be demarcated in its purity, as an idea of critique in and of itself. For the idea of critique to become pure we must view critique as the const…
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: Identities, Hegemonies and Social Change
Unravelling the knots: Post-structuralism and other 'post-isms
Beginning with the assumption that there is confusion over what is meant by post-structuralism, and that this confusion is fostered by critics and supporters alike, I argue for an exclusive but not deadening definition of this apparently nebulous term. Using as my benchmark the minimum definition that post-structuralism is an attempt to go beyond the limitations of structuralism without regress to humanism I aim to specify this further by investi…
Dramatization as method in political theory
Berlin's defence of value‐pluralism: Clarifications and criticisms
Drama Out of a Crisis? Poststructuralism and the Politics of Everyday Life
Time and again we have been told that poststructuralism is in crisis. Poststructuralism, we hear, is ontologically exhausted, epistemologically and normatively confused, and politically irrelevant to the contemporary economic and institutional conditions that have already domesticated, assimilated and recuperated it. While there is clearly merit and provocation in such critiques, for us, they underestimate the extent to which poststructuralist co…
Totalizing institutions, critique and resistance
After Possession
Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object has been framed primarily as a contribution to object oriented metaphysics. In this article, I shall explicate and defend four claims that bring it closer to the modern critical tradition: 1) that Garcia’s Form and Object can be read, profitably, within the tradition of reflection upon the nature of possessions, self-possession and possessiveness; 2) that to read the book in this way is to see Garcia as the French…
Reconstituting Social Criticism
In the context of a new global order where the logic of the market reigns virtually unopposed, there is a clear need for original thinking that might reinvigorate a progressive political project. This
Reconstituting Social Criticism: Political Morality in an Age of Scepticism
Berlin's defence of value‐pluralism: Clarifications and criticisms
Capitalism, justice and the law
Beyond the communicative turn in political philosophy
I take it that (1) the central problem of political philosophy is how to deploy philosophy in the criticism and direction of practice. This paper maps out the basic terrain of the relationship between (A) neo‐Kantian Critical Theory (for example, Jürgen Habermas), (B) hermeneutics (for example, Charles Taylor) and (C) constructivism (for example, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari). It contends that this central problem (1) is not met by the argum…
Unravelling the knots: Post-structuralism and other 'post-isms
Beginning with the assumption that there is confusion over what is meant by post-structuralism, and that this confusion is fostered by critics and supporters alike, I argue for an exclusive but not deadening definition of this apparently nebulous term. Using as my benchmark the minimum definition that post-structuralism is an attempt to go beyond the limitations of structuralism without regress to humanism I aim to specify this further by investi…
Ideology After Poststructuralism
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: Identities, Hegemonies and Social Change
The idea of pure critique
What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference? This question addresses core themes in modern, post-Kantian and European philosophy, challenging theory's resignation in the face of contemporary political and economic formations. If indifference is to be overcome, critique must be demarcated in its purity, as an idea of critique in and of itself. For the idea of critique to become pure we must view critique as the const…
What is a Political Event
What is a Political Event? Iain MacKenzie (bio) One of the central, and well understood, tasks of political theory is to debate the meaning of political events by incorporating them within competing interpretive frameworks. This implies a more fundamental, though not well understood, task; namely, establishing the nature of political events.1 It is more fundamental on two grounds: a) if we do not understand the nature of political events then we …
Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari
This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis
Dramatization as method in political theory
Reflections on time and politics, Nathan Widder
The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what it’s achieved and where it’s going GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748641222','ISBN:9780748653690','ISBN:9780748653713']); Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically …
Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Marxism, Religion and Ideology: Themes from David McLellan
Marxism, Religion and Ideology
Creative Practices/Resistant Acts
In the opening of this special issue, we invite readers to consider, through the articles presented, how various modes of artistic expression and creative acts of resistance can lead to a better understanding of the nature and implications of political and social revolt, and how a focus on creative practices can be part of the wider debate in a time of uncertainty and unrest. The issue examines the important intersection between creative practice…
Creative Practices/Resistant Acts
In the opening of this special issue, we invite readers to consider, through the articles presented, how various modes of artistic expression and creative acts of resistance can lead to a better understanding of the nature and implications of political and social revolt, and how a focus on creative practices can be part of the wider debate in a time of uncertainty and unrest. The issue examines the important intersection between creative practice…
Poststructuralism: What Happened
Drama Out of a Crisis? Poststructuralism and the Politics of Everyday Life
Time and again we have been told that poststructuralism is in crisis. Poststructuralism, we hear, is ontologically exhausted, epistemologically and normatively confused, and politically irrelevant to the contemporary economic and institutional conditions that have already domesticated, assimilated and recuperated it. While there is clearly merit and provocation in such critiques, for us, they underestimate the extent to which poststructuralist co…
Chapter 1: From the Truth about Politics to the Politics of Truth
Chapter 5: Resistance in Control Societies
Chapter 4: The Militant Subject of a Political Truth
Chapter 2: Truth and Power
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