Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Biographic Data
| ID | 881960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar Guardiola-Rivera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar |
| FAMILY NAME | Guardiola-Rivera |
| SIGNATURE | GUARDIOLA-RIVERA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2798-409X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fanon and the Law in advance
This essay traces the impact of Frantz Fanon’s thought on legal/political philosophy. We begin by distinguishing economic from psychological misery , a distinction traceable to Fanon’s forebears in continental constitutionalism, antifascism, and history from below, including Suzanne Césaire, Pierre Yoyotte, and René Ménil. This tradition makes two crucial moves. The first develops a social psychology of centralist mentalities and institutions, as…
Interlocution Not Conclusion
Written in the shape of a letter to a friend and long-time collaborator, this piece focuses on Drucilla Cornell’s most crucial lessons on a critical theory for the future: the intertwinement of aesthetics and politics; the need to figure and reconfigure techniques of liberation; the clarification that the decolonial turn is an ontological turn; the relationship between justice and negotiations; the reformulation of the feminine within sexual diff…
Poetic Traditions of Revolt in the Caribbean
How to reciprocate a precious gift? In this case the gift was given to us twice. First, in the shape of Paget Henry’s pioneering reinvention of René Ménil’s “Aesthetic Marxism.” Through it, second, we’re led to rediscover the fantastic world of Ménil’s hitherto ignored but crucial contribution to contemporary philosophy: his systematization of the poetics of revolt. Our debt with Ménil and Henry is unpayable. Our humble response in this essay is …
Slow-mo
This essay explores Afro-Colombian artist Oscar Murillo’s practice and process as an instance of ‘fantastic critique’. Animated by an ongoing exchange between the artist and the author about art & human rights, trade and place, protest and action, including the 2021 General strike in Colombia, it aims to situate emerging notions of justice in the intersection between artistic practices and ethical-political acts, asking if and how art can engage …
The Archive Is Also a Place of Dreams
This piece engages creolization as an approach to the history of philosophy and the sense of justice. Building on ancient philosophical and anthropological accounts of the institutional rituals as well as creolizing analyses by writers of the Black Diaspora, it focuses on the approach outlined by J. A. Gordon’s pathbreaking political theory. Creolization is advanced as an invitation to intensify possibilities lying dormant in the archive of our c…
Memoirs of the Plague
A defence of armed Art/Struggle
This book constitutes a first approach to the idea of aesthetic justice. It does so in the context of a critique and recovery of the normative and principled aspect of utopia and denunciation, crucial in the theory and practice of human rights, and for the political philosophy of what Ernesto Laclau termed "radical investment". Beginning with an approach to the persistence of the political in the Americas, the book argues in favour of the insepar…
Theatrum Philosophicum
Walter Benjamin, never given to the trappings of nostalgia wishing to revive the traditions of the past, saw in this light the lyric poetry of Baudelaire, the detective-fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and the utopian fantasies of Fourier, Saint-Simon and others. The techno-human principle derived from Benjamin's conception of time and transformative action can be distilled into one word: interruption. The Paulinian concept of time as kairos, which th…
Notes After the End of the World
In the Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx defined emancipation as "the explosion of the sensibility of will" (28). This means that a concrete process of liberation entails the re-appropriation of the means of intellect by a willing group of individuals "who define themselves as individuals in struggle, yet who also mobilize as individuals in a group, a group with a collective practice, based on voluntary cooperation and a collective will and imaginat…
A Jurisprudence of Indignation
What comes after Sovereignty
This paper addresses the question of sovereignty from a perspective that connects the origins of public international law, with a series of onto-theological assumptions about the nature of place that were decisive in the emergence of modern colonialism. It will argue that insofar as sovereignty depends on some form of transcendence, external or internal, it is and has been ‘’impotent’’ from the very outset. Faced with the truth of its ultimate im…
Aprender a vivir sin maestros. Slavoj Žižek en diálogo con Óscar Guardiola-Rivera
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Tiempo de excepción
Bien se sabe que el alemán Carl Schmitt interpretó la posición del soberano en términos teológico-políticos: como el príncipe medieval cristiano cuya función consistía en prevenir y deferir el fin. Apuntalando las cercanías entre Schmitt y su mentor intelectual Thomas Hobbes, puede verse que en últimas la posición del decisor soberano es aquí la de quien intenta administrar o controlar el riesgo de la ocurrencia de eventos catastróficos en el fut…
Law in other contexts
This essay argues against the two pillars of current research on law and globalisation, from the perspective of legal theory and political philosophy: first, the distinction between 'well-ordered' and 'not so well-ordered' societies; second, the sociological model of the subject as pacified, fearful and isolated (to sum up, in harmony). It is argued that mainstream legal theory and political philosophy merely reflects the actual rules of the game…
Return of the fetish
Paradise Lost
The Question Concerning Law
The Question Concerning Law
Paradise Lost
Return of the fetish
Tiempo de excepción
Bien se sabe que el alemán Carl Schmitt interpretó la posición del soberano en términos teológico-políticos: como el príncipe medieval cristiano cuya función consistía en prevenir y deferir el fin. Apuntalando las cercanías entre Schmitt y su mentor intelectual Thomas Hobbes, puede verse que en últimas la posición del decisor soberano es aquí la de quien intenta administrar o controlar el riesgo de la ocurrencia de eventos catastróficos en el fut…
Law in other contexts
This essay argues against the two pillars of current research on law and globalisation, from the perspective of legal theory and political philosophy: first, the distinction between 'well-ordered' and 'not so well-ordered' societies; second, the sociological model of the subject as pacified, fearful and isolated (to sum up, in harmony). It is argued that mainstream legal theory and political philosophy merely reflects the actual rules of the game…
Aprender a vivir sin maestros. Slavoj Žižek en diálogo con Óscar Guardiola-Rivera
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
What comes after Sovereignty
This paper addresses the question of sovereignty from a perspective that connects the origins of public international law, with a series of onto-theological assumptions about the nature of place that were decisive in the emergence of modern colonialism. It will argue that insofar as sovereignty depends on some form of transcendence, external or internal, it is and has been ‘’impotent’’ from the very outset. Faced with the truth of its ultimate im…
Notes After the End of the World
In the Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx defined emancipation as "the explosion of the sensibility of will" (28). This means that a concrete process of liberation entails the re-appropriation of the means of intellect by a willing group of individuals "who define themselves as individuals in struggle, yet who also mobilize as individuals in a group, a group with a collective practice, based on voluntary cooperation and a collective will and imaginat…
A Jurisprudence of Indignation
Theatrum Philosophicum
Walter Benjamin, never given to the trappings of nostalgia wishing to revive the traditions of the past, saw in this light the lyric poetry of Baudelaire, the detective-fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and the utopian fantasies of Fourier, Saint-Simon and others. The techno-human principle derived from Benjamin's conception of time and transformative action can be distilled into one word: interruption. The Paulinian concept of time as kairos, which th…
A defence of armed Art/Struggle
This book constitutes a first approach to the idea of aesthetic justice. It does so in the context of a critique and recovery of the normative and principled aspect of utopia and denunciation, crucial in the theory and practice of human rights, and for the political philosophy of what Ernesto Laclau termed "radical investment". Beginning with an approach to the persistence of the political in the Americas, the book argues in favour of the insepar…
The Archive Is Also a Place of Dreams
This piece engages creolization as an approach to the history of philosophy and the sense of justice. Building on ancient philosophical and anthropological accounts of the institutional rituals as well as creolizing analyses by writers of the Black Diaspora, it focuses on the approach outlined by J. A. Gordon’s pathbreaking political theory. Creolization is advanced as an invitation to intensify possibilities lying dormant in the archive of our c…
Memoirs of the Plague
Slow-mo
This essay explores Afro-Colombian artist Oscar Murillo’s practice and process as an instance of ‘fantastic critique’. Animated by an ongoing exchange between the artist and the author about art & human rights, trade and place, protest and action, including the 2021 General strike in Colombia, it aims to situate emerging notions of justice in the intersection between artistic practices and ethical-political acts, asking if and how art can engage …
Interlocution Not Conclusion
Written in the shape of a letter to a friend and long-time collaborator, this piece focuses on Drucilla Cornell’s most crucial lessons on a critical theory for the future: the intertwinement of aesthetics and politics; the need to figure and reconfigure techniques of liberation; the clarification that the decolonial turn is an ontological turn; the relationship between justice and negotiations; the reformulation of the feminine within sexual diff…
Poetic Traditions of Revolt in the Caribbean
How to reciprocate a precious gift? In this case the gift was given to us twice. First, in the shape of Paget Henry’s pioneering reinvention of René Ménil’s “Aesthetic Marxism.” Through it, second, we’re led to rediscover the fantastic world of Ménil’s hitherto ignored but crucial contribution to contemporary philosophy: his systematization of the poetics of revolt. Our debt with Ménil and Henry is unpayable. Our humble response in this essay is …
Fanon and the Law in advance
This essay traces the impact of Frantz Fanon’s thought on legal/political philosophy. We begin by distinguishing economic from psychological misery , a distinction traceable to Fanon’s forebears in continental constitutionalism, antifascism, and history from below, including Suzanne Césaire, Pierre Yoyotte, and René Ménil. This tradition makes two crucial moves. The first develops a social psychology of centralist mentalities and institutions, as…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)