Evan Calder Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4140657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan Calder Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan Calder |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | NewSchool of Architecture and Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3384-7836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wrong Place, Right Time
This essay critically approaches the use of “1968” as a periodizing category by contrasting historiographic and political debates on the event and aftermath of the French May with the spatial and temporal unevenness that attaches to Italy’s “long” 1968. We explore two interlocking dimensions of the latter: the reprise of the “Southern question” in the midst of this sociopolitical upheaval, on the one hand, and the potent if enigmatic image of an …
Towards a Gay Communism
Viva [Qualcosa]
Placed back in sequence, the rather awkward pose shown here (Fig. 1) finds its sense and generic placement: a blond and flawlessly moustachioed cop is on his way up, via a crane-dangled cable, to storm a school where sadistic hoodlums have taken hostage not just schoolchildren but, worse for them, the lover of said cop. But, isolated as a still, this image is a contradiction, a digital frame pulled from a celluloid film never meant to be paused o…
Lenin Reloaded
This review looks back at Lenin Reloaded: Towards a Politics of Truth , the 2007 collection of essays from Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Fredric Jameson, Sylvain Lazarus, Terry Eagleton, and others. Taking up the volume’s central questions, it moves through the problems posed explicitly and implicitly by an attempt to think the figure and politics of Lenin today. In so doing, the review takes on the Leninist conception of history and revolution, th…
Wrong Place, Right Time
This essay critically approaches the use of “1968” as a periodizing category by contrasting historiographic and political debates on the event and aftermath of the French May with the spatial and temporal unevenness that attaches to Italy’s “long” 1968. We explore two interlocking dimensions of the latter: the reprise of the “Southern question” in the midst of this sociopolitical upheaval, on the one hand, and the potent if enigmatic image of an …
Lenin Reloaded
This review looks back at Lenin Reloaded: Towards a Politics of Truth , the 2007 collection of essays from Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Fredric Jameson, Sylvain Lazarus, Terry Eagleton, and others. Taking up the volume’s central questions, it moves through the problems posed explicitly and implicitly by an attempt to think the figure and politics of Lenin today. In so doing, the review takes on the Leninist conception of history and revolution, th…
Viva [Qualcosa]
Placed back in sequence, the rather awkward pose shown here (Fig. 1) finds its sense and generic placement: a blond and flawlessly moustachioed cop is on his way up, via a crane-dangled cable, to storm a school where sadistic hoodlums have taken hostage not just schoolchildren but, worse for them, the lover of said cop. But, isolated as a still, this image is a contradiction, a digital frame pulled from a celluloid film never meant to be paused o…
Towards a Gay Communism
Wrong Place, Right Time
This essay critically approaches the use of “1968” as a periodizing category by contrasting historiographic and political debates on the event and aftermath of the French May with the spatial and temporal unevenness that attaches to Italy’s “long” 1968. We explore two interlocking dimensions of the latter: the reprise of the “Southern question” in the midst of this sociopolitical upheaval, on the one hand, and the potent if enigmatic image of an …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Centring (1 work)