William Paris
Biographic Data
| ID | 939787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Paris |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Paris |
| SIGNATURE | PARIS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3912-1796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with Self-Emancipation
This article argues that the basic task of Critical Theory is the self-emancipation of agents via the education of experience. In what follows, the author claims that if we take this seriously, then what distinguishes Critical Theory from other forms of theorization is not only the content but also the form of writing that is conducive to reshaping the experience of agents. In other words, it is necessary to take seriously that an aspect of Criti…
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation argues that racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time, and utopia has been the response to this domination. The racially dominated are not free to define what counts as “progress,” they are not free from the accumulation of past injustices, and, most importantly, they are not free from the arbitrary organization of work in capitalist labor markets. Racially unj…
Fear of Black Consciousness By Lewis R.Gordon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022
Without Losing Sight of the Concrete: Critical and Metacritical Theories of Race
The shifting dynamics of racial domination across historical contexts present a problem for critical philosophy of race. Much of the literature has focused on answering the question of "What is race?" as the solution to the problem of dynamic variability. In what follows, this article proposes that a better solution should begin with answering the question "What must the world be like for race to shift appearances across contexts?" Answering the …
Gender and technology in Frantz Fanon: Confrontations of the clinical and political
One of the most pertinent sites of investigation in Fanon studies is the question of how Fanon theorizes the imbrication of gender with that of race and colonialism. For many, his silence or disavowals, whether explicit or implicit, allow an uncritical masculinism to slip into his theories of subjectivity, subjugation, and revolution. This article contributes to these discussions by arguing that for Fanon, gender and race are colonial technologie…
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
The continued existence of ghettos in the United States demands that we reflect on the nature of our political values and whether the basic structure of our society is fundamentally just or unjust. Tommie Shelby's Dark Ghettos intends to provide “a detailed defense of the values and principles that ... should (and sometimes do) guide grassroots efforts and policy prescriptions” (7) in addressing the injustice of ghettos. Though there are social-s…
Assata Shakur, Mamphela Ramphele, and the Developing of Resistant Imaginations
This article will continue Jose Medina's work on "resistant imaginations" by developing the concepts of "internal resistant imagination" and "external resistant imagination" through readings of Assata Shakur's and Mamphela Ramphele's autobiographies. By introducing the problem of location and its relation to race it will show that one's geographical location affects their location in relation to hegemonic imaginations. This in turn requires diffe…
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Assata Shakur, Mamphela Ramphele, and the Developing of Resistant Imaginations
This article will continue Jose Medina's work on "resistant imaginations" by developing the concepts of "internal resistant imagination" and "external resistant imagination" through readings of Assata Shakur's and Mamphela Ramphele's autobiographies. By introducing the problem of location and its relation to race it will show that one's geographical location affects their location in relation to hegemonic imaginations. This in turn requires diffe…
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
The continued existence of ghettos in the United States demands that we reflect on the nature of our political values and whether the basic structure of our society is fundamentally just or unjust. Tommie Shelby's Dark Ghettos intends to provide “a detailed defense of the values and principles that ... should (and sometimes do) guide grassroots efforts and policy prescriptions” (7) in addressing the injustice of ghettos. Though there are social-s…
Gender and technology in Frantz Fanon: Confrontations of the clinical and political
One of the most pertinent sites of investigation in Fanon studies is the question of how Fanon theorizes the imbrication of gender with that of race and colonialism. For many, his silence or disavowals, whether explicit or implicit, allow an uncritical masculinism to slip into his theories of subjectivity, subjugation, and revolution. This article contributes to these discussions by arguing that for Fanon, gender and race are colonial technologie…
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation argues that racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time, and utopia has been the response to this domination. The racially dominated are not free to define what counts as “progress,” they are not free from the accumulation of past injustices, and, most importantly, they are not free from the arbitrary organization of work in capitalist labor markets. Racially unj…
Fear of Black Consciousness By Lewis R.Gordon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022
Without Losing Sight of the Concrete: Critical and Metacritical Theories of Race
The shifting dynamics of racial domination across historical contexts present a problem for critical philosophy of race. Much of the literature has focused on answering the question of "What is race?" as the solution to the problem of dynamic variability. In what follows, this article proposes that a better solution should begin with answering the question "What must the world be like for race to shift appearances across contexts?" Answering the …
What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with Self-Emancipation
This article argues that the basic task of Critical Theory is the self-emancipation of agents via the education of experience. In what follows, the author claims that if we take this seriously, then what distinguishes Critical Theory from other forms of theorization is not only the content but also the form of writing that is conducive to reshaping the experience of agents. In other words, it is necessary to take seriously that an aspect of Criti…
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)