P J Brendese
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P J Brendese |
| GIVEN NAMES | P J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brendese |
| SIGNATURE | BRENDESE P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7301-3978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Segregated Time
A Race of Devils
This essay engages Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus as a salient intervention into modern political theory. I analyze the work as a cipher for the tensions inhabiting Euro-modernity’s stitched together fictions of racial determinism and racial dynamism legible in slavery, assimilationist projects and White fears reverberating throughout. Adapting the mythical ancient Prometheus as one who steals fire from the gods to create hu…
Tragedy, education, democracy
The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics
Offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory'songoing impact on democratic horizons. George Orwell famously argued that those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In this study of the relationship between democr…
Borderline epidemics
This essay examines the role of race in the differential distribution of life, death and disposability as it pertains to Latino/a immigrants in the USA—especially immigrants of Mexican descent. I explore Michel Foucault's theories of disciplinary and biopolitical power, showing how his insights challenge attempts to figure undocumented immigrants in terms of a social contract. By reframing immigration in terms of who is subject to disciplinary su…
The Race of a More Perfect Union
The 2008 U.S. presidential race dramatized the connection between America’s segregated memory and its segregated polity. This essay makes the case that James Baldwin offers valuable insight into the legacy of segregated memory in contemporary racial politics in general, and the presidential race in particular. To do so, I provide a brief historical overview of segregated memory since the Civil War, and offer an analysis of Baldwin’s account of th…
On the Dream Bridges between Loneliness and Solidarity
On the Dream Bridges between Loneliness and Solidarity P. J. Brendese (bio) Thomas Dumm . Loneliness as a Way of Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 193 pages, $23.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0674-0-3113-5. You are not alone in your loneliness. Tragically, this realization will not necessarily make you any less lonely. In a distinctive and provocative work, Thomas Dumm's Loneliness as a Way of Life takes as its subject the inescapable …
Remembering Democratic Time
This article examines the politics of memory at work in both Mexico's dirty war against political dissidents and the failed attempts to prosecute political leaders responsible for the atrocities. Utilizing information recently made available by the National Security Archive's Mexico Project, it explores how power relations influence public memory, and how this memory shapes democratic futures. A critical engagement with Jacques Derrida's Specters…
Borderline epidemics
This essay examines the role of race in the differential distribution of life, death and disposability as it pertains to Latino/a immigrants in the USA—especially immigrants of Mexican descent. I explore Michel Foucault's theories of disciplinary and biopolitical power, showing how his insights challenge attempts to figure undocumented immigrants in terms of a social contract. By reframing immigration in terms of who is subject to disciplinary su…
A Race of Devils
This essay engages Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus as a salient intervention into modern political theory. I analyze the work as a cipher for the tensions inhabiting Euro-modernity’s stitched together fictions of racial determinism and racial dynamism legible in slavery, assimilationist projects and White fears reverberating throughout. Adapting the mythical ancient Prometheus as one who steals fire from the gods to create hu…
Remembering Democratic Time
This article examines the politics of memory at work in both Mexico's dirty war against political dissidents and the failed attempts to prosecute political leaders responsible for the atrocities. Utilizing information recently made available by the National Security Archive's Mexico Project, it explores how power relations influence public memory, and how this memory shapes democratic futures. A critical engagement with Jacques Derrida's Specters…
Remembering Democratic Time
This article examines the politics of memory at work in both Mexico's dirty war against political dissidents and the failed attempts to prosecute political leaders responsible for the atrocities. Utilizing information recently made available by the National Security Archive's Mexico Project, it explores how power relations influence public memory, and how this memory shapes democratic futures. A critical engagement with Jacques Derrida's Specters…
On the Dream Bridges between Loneliness and Solidarity
On the Dream Bridges between Loneliness and Solidarity P. J. Brendese (bio) Thomas Dumm . Loneliness as a Way of Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 193 pages, $23.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0674-0-3113-5. You are not alone in your loneliness. Tragically, this realization will not necessarily make you any less lonely. In a distinctive and provocative work, Thomas Dumm's Loneliness as a Way of Life takes as its subject the inescapable …
The Race of a More Perfect Union
The 2008 U.S. presidential race dramatized the connection between America’s segregated memory and its segregated polity. This essay makes the case that James Baldwin offers valuable insight into the legacy of segregated memory in contemporary racial politics in general, and the presidential race in particular. To do so, I provide a brief historical overview of segregated memory since the Civil War, and offer an analysis of Baldwin’s account of th…
The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics
Offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory'songoing impact on democratic horizons. George Orwell famously argued that those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In this study of the relationship between democr…
Borderline epidemics
This essay examines the role of race in the differential distribution of life, death and disposability as it pertains to Latino/a immigrants in the USA—especially immigrants of Mexican descent. I explore Michel Foucault's theories of disciplinary and biopolitical power, showing how his insights challenge attempts to figure undocumented immigrants in terms of a social contract. By reframing immigration in terms of who is subject to disciplinary su…
Tragedy, education, democracy
Segregated Time
A Race of Devils
This essay engages Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus as a salient intervention into modern political theory. I analyze the work as a cipher for the tensions inhabiting Euro-modernity’s stitched together fictions of racial determinism and racial dynamism legible in slavery, assimilationist projects and White fears reverberating throughout. Adapting the mythical ancient Prometheus as one who steals fire from the gods to create hu…
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