R Abbinnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 9676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Abbinnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbinnett |
| SIGNATURE | ABBINNETT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9854-3967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Late Fascism
The article examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. This is done through a reading of Alberto Toscano’s work on late fascism, and his contention that to understand the popularity of the contemporary ultra right we have to give up the idea of a direct analogy with the classical fascist period. The article develops the argument that although Toscano presents a powerful account of t…
Introduction
In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz's place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors' papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who help…
Gorz and Stiegler
The article explores the relationship between André Gorz's account of the possibility of a deproletarianised regime of labour and Bernard Stiegler's theory of the Neganthropocene. Gorz's formulation of the impact of computer and robotic systems on the turnover of capital was, I will argue, a turning point in the way critical theory conceived the social implications of technology. His account of the supervenience of work and culture over the spher…
Living After Auschwitz
The problem with remembering Auschwitz is that the neoliberal paradigm of economic utility, demotic happiness, and programmed consumption has tended to erase its facticity from public consciousness. Technoscientific capitalism functions as a regime of amnesic performance that prevents a 'working through' of the Nazi genocide. I argue that Agamben's work on the implicit violence of the biopolitical paradigm gives a crucial insight into the fate of…
The Politics of Spirit in Stiegler's Techno-Pharmacology
This article begins by examining the concept of the pharmakon that is developed in Derrida's essay 'Plato's Pharmacy', as it is here that the idea of a medium that is simultaneously poisonous and therapeutic is developed in relation to the discursive effects of writing. The author then goes on to look at Stiegler's attempt to reconfigure the 'orthographic economy' of deconstruction, particularly his account of how the 'tertiary supports' of virtu…
The Spectre and the Simulacrum
With the recent deaths of both Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida, it is an opportune moment to consider their respective contributions to social and cultural theory. The purpose of this article is not to establish an unbridgeable gap which allows no communication between Baudrillard and Derrida's thought. Rather, I will argue that there is an underlying assumption which brings them into close proximity: the idea that the dialectical order of t…
Untimely Agitations
The article is an attempt to interrogate the idea of anti‐capitalist politics in the light Rosa Luxemberg's notion of radical autonomism. My argument is that Luxemberg's hesitation before the Leninist demand for the strategic appropriation of political difference, gestures towards an idea of "the untimely" which is revived in the work of Naomi Klein and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The essence of this idea is that the media‐techno‐scientific …
Marxism After Modernity
Marxism After Modernity is concerned with the ways in which Marxist theory has responded to the major social, economic and technological transformations of capitalism which have occurred in the late t
Spectres of Class
The paper is concerned with the reaction of the left to the publication of Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx (SM). My argument is that this reaction has, in general, been unwilling to engage with the ethico‐political significance of Derrida's thought, and that it has concentrated largely on reiterating certain protocols which ought to govern the inheritance of Marx's political provocations. I have taken three particularly vociferous critics of S…
Culture and Identity
This incisive text provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. In particular the work of Lyotard, Beck, Bauman, Baudrillard, Giddens, Jameson and Derrida is critically reviewed
Politics and enlightenment
Walter Benjamin once remarked of the enterprise of translation ‘that it is nowhere’: that the labour of transcribing the sense, inflection and difference of any particular language and text must always situate the translator in a space which is neither ‘of the original, nor ‘of the language into which it is to be transcribed. This ‘non‐position’ of the translator—between the original and its analogue, between the ‘spirit’ and the ‘letter’, the di…
The Politics of Spirit in Stiegler's Techno-Pharmacology
This article begins by examining the concept of the pharmakon that is developed in Derrida's essay 'Plato's Pharmacy', as it is here that the idea of a medium that is simultaneously poisonous and therapeutic is developed in relation to the discursive effects of writing. The author then goes on to look at Stiegler's attempt to reconfigure the 'orthographic economy' of deconstruction, particularly his account of how the 'tertiary supports' of virtu…
Living After Auschwitz
The problem with remembering Auschwitz is that the neoliberal paradigm of economic utility, demotic happiness, and programmed consumption has tended to erase its facticity from public consciousness. Technoscientific capitalism functions as a regime of amnesic performance that prevents a 'working through' of the Nazi genocide. I argue that Agamben's work on the implicit violence of the biopolitical paradigm gives a crucial insight into the fate of…
The Spectre and the Simulacrum
With the recent deaths of both Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida, it is an opportune moment to consider their respective contributions to social and cultural theory. The purpose of this article is not to establish an unbridgeable gap which allows no communication between Baudrillard and Derrida's thought. Rather, I will argue that there is an underlying assumption which brings them into close proximity: the idea that the dialectical order of t…
Spectres of Class
The paper is concerned with the reaction of the left to the publication of Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx (SM). My argument is that this reaction has, in general, been unwilling to engage with the ethico‐political significance of Derrida's thought, and that it has concentrated largely on reiterating certain protocols which ought to govern the inheritance of Marx's political provocations. I have taken three particularly vociferous critics of S…
Introduction
In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz's place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors' papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who help…
Politics and enlightenment
Walter Benjamin once remarked of the enterprise of translation ‘that it is nowhere’: that the labour of transcribing the sense, inflection and difference of any particular language and text must always situate the translator in a space which is neither ‘of the original, nor ‘of the language into which it is to be transcribed. This ‘non‐position’ of the translator—between the original and its analogue, between the ‘spirit’ and the ‘letter’, the di…
Politics and enlightenment
Walter Benjamin once remarked of the enterprise of translation ‘that it is nowhere’: that the labour of transcribing the sense, inflection and difference of any particular language and text must always situate the translator in a space which is neither ‘of the original, nor ‘of the language into which it is to be transcribed. This ‘non‐position’ of the translator—between the original and its analogue, between the ‘spirit’ and the ‘letter’, the di…
Culture and Identity
This incisive text provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. In particular the work of Lyotard, Beck, Bauman, Baudrillard, Giddens, Jameson and Derrida is critically reviewed
Marxism After Modernity
Marxism After Modernity is concerned with the ways in which Marxist theory has responded to the major social, economic and technological transformations of capitalism which have occurred in the late t
Spectres of Class
The paper is concerned with the reaction of the left to the publication of Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx (SM). My argument is that this reaction has, in general, been unwilling to engage with the ethico‐political significance of Derrida's thought, and that it has concentrated largely on reiterating certain protocols which ought to govern the inheritance of Marx's political provocations. I have taken three particularly vociferous critics of S…
Untimely Agitations
The article is an attempt to interrogate the idea of anti‐capitalist politics in the light Rosa Luxemberg's notion of radical autonomism. My argument is that Luxemberg's hesitation before the Leninist demand for the strategic appropriation of political difference, gestures towards an idea of "the untimely" which is revived in the work of Naomi Klein and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The essence of this idea is that the media‐techno‐scientific …
The Spectre and the Simulacrum
With the recent deaths of both Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida, it is an opportune moment to consider their respective contributions to social and cultural theory. The purpose of this article is not to establish an unbridgeable gap which allows no communication between Baudrillard and Derrida's thought. Rather, I will argue that there is an underlying assumption which brings them into close proximity: the idea that the dialectical order of t…
The Politics of Spirit in Stiegler's Techno-Pharmacology
This article begins by examining the concept of the pharmakon that is developed in Derrida's essay 'Plato's Pharmacy', as it is here that the idea of a medium that is simultaneously poisonous and therapeutic is developed in relation to the discursive effects of writing. The author then goes on to look at Stiegler's attempt to reconfigure the 'orthographic economy' of deconstruction, particularly his account of how the 'tertiary supports' of virtu…
Living After Auschwitz
The problem with remembering Auschwitz is that the neoliberal paradigm of economic utility, demotic happiness, and programmed consumption has tended to erase its facticity from public consciousness. Technoscientific capitalism functions as a regime of amnesic performance that prevents a 'working through' of the Nazi genocide. I argue that Agamben's work on the implicit violence of the biopolitical paradigm gives a crucial insight into the fate of…
Introduction
In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz's place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors' papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who help…
Gorz and Stiegler
The article explores the relationship between André Gorz's account of the possibility of a deproletarianised regime of labour and Bernard Stiegler's theory of the Neganthropocene. Gorz's formulation of the impact of computer and robotic systems on the turnover of capital was, I will argue, a turning point in the way critical theory conceived the social implications of technology. His account of the supervenience of work and culture over the spher…
On Late Fascism
The article examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. This is done through a reading of Alberto Toscano’s work on late fascism, and his contention that to understand the popularity of the contemporary ultra right we have to give up the idea of a direct analogy with the classical fascist period. The article develops the argument that although Toscano presents a powerful account of t…
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