Stephen D Seely
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Seely |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Seely |
| SIGNATURE | SEELY S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4969-984X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond’
This paper enacts a work of mourning inspired by Drucilla Cornell’s own writings on the work of mourning in The Philosophy of the Limit. I begin by reflecting on the theme of the ‘beyond’ across her writings and, in particular, on how this ‘beyond’ names the space-time of the Other that keeps the present out of joint so that neither the past nor the future can ever be captured by an ontology of ‘presence’. It then looks at how she links the ‘beyo…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the collection of memorial papers for Drucilla Cornell
Imagination and Individuation
This essay interprets Drucilla Cornell’s 1990s work as a feminist jurisprudence of persons, centred on the concepts of imagination and individuation. First, I look at how Cornell reconfigures the legal idea(l) of ‘the person’ by underlining the constitutive role of the imagination through her reading of Kant and psychoanalysis. I then turn to how Cornell reimagines the conditions of personhood, bringing moral autonomy and psychic individuation to…
Setting struggle in motion
In light of the rising anti-racist and decolonial struggles breaking out in the world, this essay seeks to displace the theoretical dichotomy between ‘violence’ and ‘non-violence’. We begin by revisiting Arendt and Fanon to argue that within the conditions of colonial-racial capitalism, ‘non-violence’ is merely a theoretical abstraction. Building on Fanon, who understands decolonial struggle as setting the ‘atmospheric violence’ of colonization i…
Why Political? Why Spirituality? Why Now
In this essay, we revisit the concept of “political spirituality” that we developed in our book The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man (2016) in light of the profound political upheavals that have happened since its publication. We begin with theories about the breakdown of neoliberalism and the “return of politics” with the rise of so-called populist movements. We argue that notions of the “demos” and the “people” miss the dimensi…
Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity
Within the context of questions raised by gender and sexuality studies about the relationship between sex and technics, I develop a theory of sexuation derived from Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation. First, I provide an overview of Simondon's philosophy of individuation, from the physical to the collective. In the second section, I turn to the question of sexuality, outlining an ontogenetic account in which sexuation is conceived as …
Irigaray Between God and the Indians
In this essay, I situate Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference between the Heideggerian response to the collapse of the project of Western modernity (‘only a god can save us’) and that of decolonial theorist Oscar Guardiola-Riviera (‘only Indians can save our modern soul’). First, I return to Heidegger’s theorisation of ‘planetary technicity’ as the ontology of modernity, arguing, with Heidegger, that in order to respond to this problem we …
There's Nothing Revolutionary about a Blowjob
The authors of this article attempt to rethink the relationship between queer theory and Marxism, in order to argue for a revolutionary queer politics. First, they challenge the idea, offered most forcefully by queer theorist Lee Edelman, that any politics that hopes and struggles for a different future is inevitably a heteronormative project. To respond to this line of thought, this article offers a different approach to the question of futurity…
How Do You Dress a Body Without Organs
How Do You Dress a Body Without Organs?Affective Fashion and Nonhuman Becoming Stephen D. Seely (bio) Alexander McQueen's final collection, Plato's Atlantis, of 2009, was an untimely meditation in the Nietzschean spirit, a rumination on what might come after the human (fig. 1). The collection's title signaled lost civilizations to pose the question of what happens when the human is no more, or what comes next in human evolution. And while human e…
Irigaray Between God and the Indians
In this essay, I situate Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference between the Heideggerian response to the collapse of the project of Western modernity (‘only a god can save us’) and that of decolonial theorist Oscar Guardiola-Riviera (‘only Indians can save our modern soul’). First, I return to Heidegger’s theorisation of ‘planetary technicity’ as the ontology of modernity, arguing, with Heidegger, that in order to respond to this problem we …
Setting struggle in motion
In light of the rising anti-racist and decolonial struggles breaking out in the world, this essay seeks to displace the theoretical dichotomy between ‘violence’ and ‘non-violence’. We begin by revisiting Arendt and Fanon to argue that within the conditions of colonial-racial capitalism, ‘non-violence’ is merely a theoretical abstraction. Building on Fanon, who understands decolonial struggle as setting the ‘atmospheric violence’ of colonization i…
There's Nothing Revolutionary about a Blowjob
The authors of this article attempt to rethink the relationship between queer theory and Marxism, in order to argue for a revolutionary queer politics. First, they challenge the idea, offered most forcefully by queer theorist Lee Edelman, that any politics that hopes and struggles for a different future is inevitably a heteronormative project. To respond to this line of thought, this article offers a different approach to the question of futurity…
How Do You Dress a Body Without Organs
How Do You Dress a Body Without Organs?Affective Fashion and Nonhuman Becoming Stephen D. Seely (bio) Alexander McQueen's final collection, Plato's Atlantis, of 2009, was an untimely meditation in the Nietzschean spirit, a rumination on what might come after the human (fig. 1). The collection's title signaled lost civilizations to pose the question of what happens when the human is no more, or what comes next in human evolution. And while human e…
How Do You Dress a Body Without Organs
How Do You Dress a Body Without Organs?Affective Fashion and Nonhuman Becoming Stephen D. Seely (bio) Alexander McQueen's final collection, Plato's Atlantis, of 2009, was an untimely meditation in the Nietzschean spirit, a rumination on what might come after the human (fig. 1). The collection's title signaled lost civilizations to pose the question of what happens when the human is no more, or what comes next in human evolution. And while human e…
There's Nothing Revolutionary about a Blowjob
The authors of this article attempt to rethink the relationship between queer theory and Marxism, in order to argue for a revolutionary queer politics. First, they challenge the idea, offered most forcefully by queer theorist Lee Edelman, that any politics that hopes and struggles for a different future is inevitably a heteronormative project. To respond to this line of thought, this article offers a different approach to the question of futurity…
Irigaray Between God and the Indians
In this essay, I situate Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference between the Heideggerian response to the collapse of the project of Western modernity (‘only a god can save us’) and that of decolonial theorist Oscar Guardiola-Riviera (‘only Indians can save our modern soul’). First, I return to Heidegger’s theorisation of ‘planetary technicity’ as the ontology of modernity, arguing, with Heidegger, that in order to respond to this problem we …
Why Political? Why Spirituality? Why Now
In this essay, we revisit the concept of “political spirituality” that we developed in our book The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man (2016) in light of the profound political upheavals that have happened since its publication. We begin with theories about the breakdown of neoliberalism and the “return of politics” with the rise of so-called populist movements. We argue that notions of the “demos” and the “people” miss the dimensi…
Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity
Within the context of questions raised by gender and sexuality studies about the relationship between sex and technics, I develop a theory of sexuation derived from Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation. First, I provide an overview of Simondon's philosophy of individuation, from the physical to the collective. In the second section, I turn to the question of sexuality, outlining an ontogenetic account in which sexuation is conceived as …
Setting struggle in motion
In light of the rising anti-racist and decolonial struggles breaking out in the world, this essay seeks to displace the theoretical dichotomy between ‘violence’ and ‘non-violence’. We begin by revisiting Arendt and Fanon to argue that within the conditions of colonial-racial capitalism, ‘non-violence’ is merely a theoretical abstraction. Building on Fanon, who understands decolonial struggle as setting the ‘atmospheric violence’ of colonization i…
Imagination and Individuation
This essay interprets Drucilla Cornell’s 1990s work as a feminist jurisprudence of persons, centred on the concepts of imagination and individuation. First, I look at how Cornell reconfigures the legal idea(l) of ‘the person’ by underlining the constitutive role of the imagination through her reading of Kant and psychoanalysis. I then turn to how Cornell reimagines the conditions of personhood, bringing moral autonomy and psychic individuation to…
Beyond’
This paper enacts a work of mourning inspired by Drucilla Cornell’s own writings on the work of mourning in The Philosophy of the Limit. I begin by reflecting on the theme of the ‘beyond’ across her writings and, in particular, on how this ‘beyond’ names the space-time of the Other that keeps the present out of joint so that neither the past nor the future can ever be captured by an ontology of ‘presence’. It then looks at how she links the ‘beyo…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the collection of memorial papers for Drucilla Cornell
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)