Samuel A Chamber
Biographic Data
| ID | 323164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel A Chamber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Chamber |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBER S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9906-5327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Geldpolitik
The Currency of Politics should: change the way political theorists understand their texts and contexts; lead to the reworking of their concepts and events; and ultimately alter the very subject matter that constitutes their field. For too long the subfield of political theory, along with the whole discipline of political science, has been complicit in the bankrupt project of neoclassical economics. I call modern economics bankrupt because its fo…
Insurrection through the balance sheet
What has actually happened to the political economy of the United States over the last half-century? For too long now, 'neoliberalism' has been the standard answer given, yet today, the term seems to have lost both its analytic and critical capacities. Melinda Cooper's Counterrevolution offers readers a fresh and productive response to this fundamental question of contemporary political economy. Cooper comes neither to praise nor bury neoliberali…
The Sky and the Mud. The Art and Politics of Television
The “return effect” of critical television studies has proved difficult if not impossible to discern in the discipline of politics. This essay suggests this failure may have much to do with the pervasive and insidious dichotomy art/non-art, which undergirds the refusal to see television as capable of doing politics. I argue for the fundamental politics of television by way of a critique of David Foster Wallace’s 1993 effort to keep television in …
The money array; or, show me the debtor
Money is neither a thing nor a concept. Rather, as many writers have rightly suggested, money is a relation. But what kind of relation? This articles refuses the now seemingly common-sense notion that money is an 'institution' or a 'public good'. Instead, it insists on specifying money as a concrete relation between creditor and debtor. To grasp money in both its practical and conceptual complexity, we must see it as an array. The money array is …
Capitalist Economics
Modern economics does not explain, and does not even attempt to explain, capitalism; rather, both introductory texts and advanced scholarship presuppose capitalism as a universal, natural entity. In stark contrast, Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of today’s capitalist societies. Rejecting the naive idea that economics is a universal science of “choice” or the “…
The Ongoing Trouble With Normal
Research Article| January 01 2020 The Ongoing Trouble With Normal Samuel A. Chambers Samuel A. Chambers Samuel A. Chambers is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 200–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7929258 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Samuel A. Chambers; The Ongoing Troubl…
Undoing Neoliberalism: Homo Œconomicus,Homo Politicus, and theZōon Politikon
Editing and curation
The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism
Jacques Rancière’s Lesson on the Lesson
This article examines the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work on pedagogy, and argues that to make sense of Rancière’s ‘lesson on the lesson’ one must do more but also less than merely explicate Rancière’s texts. It steadfastly refuses to draw out the lessons of Rancière’s writings in the manner of a series of morals, precepts or rules. Rather, it is committed to thinking through the ‘lessons’ of Rancière in another sense. Above all, Rancière…
Jacques Rancière and the problem of pure politics
Over the past decade, Jacques Rancière’s writings have increasingly provoked and inspired political theorists who wish to avoid both the abstraction of so-called normative theories and the philosophical platitudes of so-called postmodernism. Rancière offers a new and unique definition of politics, la politique, as that which opposes, thwarts and interrupts what Rancière calls the police order, la police — a term that encapsulates most of what we …
Untimely politics avant la lettre: The temporality of social formations
A number of contemporary political theorists have recently called for a turn toward a more radical thinking of temporality that would prove more appropriate to, and more robust in thinking through, contemporary politics. This work marks an important turn in contemporary theory. However, in order to advance the very enterprise on radical temporality and politics to which these works are committed requires viewing them from a perspective that revea…
Jacques Rancière: Key Concepts
Although relatively unknown a decade ago, the work of Jacques Rancière is fast becoming a central reference in the humanities and social sciences. His thinking brings a fresh, innovative approach to many fields, notably the study of work, education, politics, literature, film, art, as well as philosophy. This is the first, full-length introduction to Rancière s work and covers the full range of his contribution to contemporary thought, presenting…
Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanation of her terms of analysis, Judith Butler and Political Theory develops Butler’s theory of the political through an exploration of her polit…
Philosophy, Politics, and User Interface: The Medium is Still the Message. A Response to Carver
Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly” May 11-12, 2007
An Incalculable Effect: Subversions of Heteronormativity
The writings of Judith Butler are now canonised in the fields of feminist and queer theory, yet her contribution to politics and her role in the field of political theory remain uncertain. I argue, perhaps uncontroversially, that Butler's is a politics of subversion; I also contend, perhaps more contentiously, that Butler's understanding of subversion only takes clear shape in light of her implicit theory of heteronormativity. Butler's work calls…
Normative Violence after 9/11: Rereading the Politics of Gender Trouble
Today, both politicians and the media echo the refrain that the world has changed fundamentally since 9/11. This shift involves the tacit sense that the world is more violent, as 9/11 is conceived as an act of pure violence. This article works against the grain of such received wisdom, but not by trying to refute it empirically. Instead, the article articulates and elucidates the latent concept of “normative violence” lodged within the writings o…
Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language, and the Politics of Calculation
Kinship Trouble: Antigone's Claim and the Politics of Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity has recently emerged as a fully shaped and well theorized concept in numerous fields, and it proves central to sexual politics and the politics of sexuality. In Antigone's Claim (2000), Judith Butler explores the heteronormativity of kinship as structured by the state, and she links this language of kinship to the incest taboo. This article focuses on Butler's politicization of kinship structures in her reading of the figure of …
Sex' and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's Theory of Sex/Gender
Cultural Politics and the Practice of Fugitive Theory
Working on the Democratic Imagination and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Working on the Democratic Imagination and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Now is not a period of “normal science” for the field of political theory, whatever we (or Kuhn 1970) might mean by that phrase. Many political theorists will today be found toiling in fields that ostensibly belong to other disciplines, and some of the best work done “in” political theory proves interdisciplinary by its very nature. The essays in this symposium offer a vibrant cross-section of what one might then call the “new” political theory: …
Democracy and (the) Public(s): Spatializing Politics in the Internet Age
Jacques Rancière and the problem of pure politics
Over the past decade, Jacques Rancière’s writings have increasingly provoked and inspired political theorists who wish to avoid both the abstraction of so-called normative theories and the philosophical platitudes of so-called postmodernism. Rancière offers a new and unique definition of politics, la politique, as that which opposes, thwarts and interrupts what Rancière calls the police order, la police — a term that encapsulates most of what we …
Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language, and the Politics of Calculation
An Incalculable Effect: Subversions of Heteronormativity
The writings of Judith Butler are now canonised in the fields of feminist and queer theory, yet her contribution to politics and her role in the field of political theory remain uncertain. I argue, perhaps uncontroversially, that Butler's is a politics of subversion; I also contend, perhaps more contentiously, that Butler's understanding of subversion only takes clear shape in light of her implicit theory of heteronormativity. Butler's work calls…
Giving Up (on) Rights? The Future of Rights and the Project of Radical Democracy
Debate over the theory of rights has recently reemerged, with a confrontation between postfoundational writings that challenge the very discourse of rights and Habermasians (and others) who insist on the foundational centrality of rights. This article will not enter such a debate directly, but rather will try to take seriously that challenge itself. The article asks what, exactly, is at stake in an argument for or against rights and queries wheth…
Telepistemology of the Closet; or, The Queer Politics of Six Feet Under
Democracy and (the) Public(s): Spatializing Politics in the Internet Age
Undoing Neoliberalism: Homo Œconomicus,Homo Politicus, and theZōon Politikon
Normative Violence after 9/11: Rereading the Politics of Gender Trouble
Today, both politicians and the media echo the refrain that the world has changed fundamentally since 9/11. This shift involves the tacit sense that the world is more violent, as 9/11 is conceived as an act of pure violence. This article works against the grain of such received wisdom, but not by trying to refute it empirically. Instead, the article articulates and elucidates the latent concept of “normative violence” lodged within the writings o…
Kinship Trouble: Antigone's Claim and the Politics of Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity has recently emerged as a fully shaped and well theorized concept in numerous fields, and it proves central to sexual politics and the politics of sexuality. In Antigone's Claim (2000), Judith Butler explores the heteronormativity of kinship as structured by the state, and she links this language of kinship to the incest taboo. This article focuses on Butler's politicization of kinship structures in her reading of the figure of …
Jacques Rancière’s Lesson on the Lesson
This article examines the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work on pedagogy, and argues that to make sense of Rancière’s ‘lesson on the lesson’ one must do more but also less than merely explicate Rancière’s texts. It steadfastly refuses to draw out the lessons of Rancière’s writings in the manner of a series of morals, precepts or rules. Rather, it is committed to thinking through the ‘lessons’ of Rancière in another sense. Above all, Rancière…
Cultural Politics and the Practice of Fugitive Theory
Sex' and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's Theory of Sex/Gender
Foucault's Evasive Maneuvers: Nietzsche, interpretation, critique
The money array; or, show me the debtor
Money is neither a thing nor a concept. Rather, as many writers have rightly suggested, money is a relation. But what kind of relation? This articles refuses the now seemingly common-sense notion that money is an 'institution' or a 'public good'. Instead, it insists on specifying money as a concrete relation between creditor and debtor. To grasp money in both its practical and conceptual complexity, we must see it as an array. The money array is …
Untimely politics avant la lettre: The temporality of social formations
A number of contemporary political theorists have recently called for a turn toward a more radical thinking of temporality that would prove more appropriate to, and more robust in thinking through, contemporary politics. This work marks an important turn in contemporary theory. However, in order to advance the very enterprise on radical temporality and politics to which these works are committed requires viewing them from a perspective that revea…
Editing and curation
The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism
Working on the Democratic Imagination and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Now is not a period of “normal science” for the field of political theory, whatever we (or Kuhn 1970) might mean by that phrase. Many political theorists will today be found toiling in fields that ostensibly belong to other disciplines, and some of the best work done “in” political theory proves interdisciplinary by its very nature. The essays in this symposium offer a vibrant cross-section of what one might then call the “new” political theory: …
Foucault's Evasive Maneuvers: Nietzsche, interpretation, critique
Deconstructing Modernity: Political Theory of Colonialism
Telepistemology of the Closet; or, The Queer Politics of Six Feet Under
Giving Up (on) Rights? The Future of Rights and the Project of Radical Democracy
Debate over the theory of rights has recently reemerged, with a confrontation between postfoundational writings that challenge the very discourse of rights and Habermasians (and others) who insist on the foundational centrality of rights. This article will not enter such a debate directly, but rather will try to take seriously that challenge itself. The article asks what, exactly, is at stake in an argument for or against rights and queries wheth…
Working on the Democratic Imagination and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Working on the Democratic Imagination and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Now is not a period of “normal science” for the field of political theory, whatever we (or Kuhn 1970) might mean by that phrase. Many political theorists will today be found toiling in fields that ostensibly belong to other disciplines, and some of the best work done “in” political theory proves interdisciplinary by its very nature. The essays in this symposium offer a vibrant cross-section of what one might then call the “new” political theory: …
Democracy and (the) Public(s): Spatializing Politics in the Internet Age
Cultural Politics and the Practice of Fugitive Theory
Philosophy, Politics, and User Interface: The Medium is Still the Message. A Response to Carver
Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly” May 11-12, 2007
An Incalculable Effect: Subversions of Heteronormativity
The writings of Judith Butler are now canonised in the fields of feminist and queer theory, yet her contribution to politics and her role in the field of political theory remain uncertain. I argue, perhaps uncontroversially, that Butler's is a politics of subversion; I also contend, perhaps more contentiously, that Butler's understanding of subversion only takes clear shape in light of her implicit theory of heteronormativity. Butler's work calls…
Normative Violence after 9/11: Rereading the Politics of Gender Trouble
Today, both politicians and the media echo the refrain that the world has changed fundamentally since 9/11. This shift involves the tacit sense that the world is more violent, as 9/11 is conceived as an act of pure violence. This article works against the grain of such received wisdom, but not by trying to refute it empirically. Instead, the article articulates and elucidates the latent concept of “normative violence” lodged within the writings o…
Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language, and the Politics of Calculation
Kinship Trouble: Antigone's Claim and the Politics of Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity has recently emerged as a fully shaped and well theorized concept in numerous fields, and it proves central to sexual politics and the politics of sexuality. In Antigone's Claim (2000), Judith Butler explores the heteronormativity of kinship as structured by the state, and she links this language of kinship to the incest taboo. This article focuses on Butler's politicization of kinship structures in her reading of the figure of …
Sex' and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's Theory of Sex/Gender
Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanation of her terms of analysis, Judith Butler and Political Theory develops Butler’s theory of the political through an exploration of her polit…
Jacques Rancière: Key Concepts
Although relatively unknown a decade ago, the work of Jacques Rancière is fast becoming a central reference in the humanities and social sciences. His thinking brings a fresh, innovative approach to many fields, notably the study of work, education, politics, literature, film, art, as well as philosophy. This is the first, full-length introduction to Rancière s work and covers the full range of his contribution to contemporary thought, presenting…
Jacques Rancière and the problem of pure politics
Over the past decade, Jacques Rancière’s writings have increasingly provoked and inspired political theorists who wish to avoid both the abstraction of so-called normative theories and the philosophical platitudes of so-called postmodernism. Rancière offers a new and unique definition of politics, la politique, as that which opposes, thwarts and interrupts what Rancière calls the police order, la police — a term that encapsulates most of what we …
Untimely politics avant la lettre: The temporality of social formations
A number of contemporary political theorists have recently called for a turn toward a more radical thinking of temporality that would prove more appropriate to, and more robust in thinking through, contemporary politics. This work marks an important turn in contemporary theory. However, in order to advance the very enterprise on radical temporality and politics to which these works are committed requires viewing them from a perspective that revea…
Jacques Rancière’s Lesson on the Lesson
This article examines the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work on pedagogy, and argues that to make sense of Rancière’s ‘lesson on the lesson’ one must do more but also less than merely explicate Rancière’s texts. It steadfastly refuses to draw out the lessons of Rancière’s writings in the manner of a series of morals, precepts or rules. Rather, it is committed to thinking through the ‘lessons’ of Rancière in another sense. Above all, Rancière…
The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism
Editing and curation
Undoing Neoliberalism: Homo Œconomicus,Homo Politicus, and theZōon Politikon
The Ongoing Trouble With Normal
Research Article| January 01 2020 The Ongoing Trouble With Normal Samuel A. Chambers Samuel A. Chambers Samuel A. Chambers is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 200–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7929258 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Samuel A. Chambers; The Ongoing Troubl…
Capitalist Economics
Modern economics does not explain, and does not even attempt to explain, capitalism; rather, both introductory texts and advanced scholarship presuppose capitalism as a universal, natural entity. In stark contrast, Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of today’s capitalist societies. Rejecting the naive idea that economics is a universal science of “choice” or the “…
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