Introduction
Impasse, Interregnum, Transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4875435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brittany Murray (0000-0002-6201-6951), Oded Nir (0000-0003-2061-9188) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-11557809 |
| OpenAlex | W4406747601 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
In this introduction, Brittany Murray and Oded Nir argue that the current conjuncture confronts us with two seemingly contradictory temporalities: intolerable stasis, and frantic overactivity. The authors attempt to disentangle these two by tracing their presence in three fields: political economy, politics, and culture. They address writing by Aaron Benanav to address the sense of economic impasse. They argue that the doubling down on capitalist solutions to crisis generate the sense of stasis and overactivity. This impasse, the authors suggest, can be seen as a forerunner to either a dystopian, technofeudal future or a utopian one. Politically, they argue that our impasse is dominated by the return of older antagonisms, such as the rise of authoritarian challenges to liberal capitalism. Based on writing by Theodor Adorno and others, this introduction suggests these seeming returns of the old are in fact products of the present. It suggests that the rebuilding of institutions, as others suggest, may lead out of this political impasse. Culturally, the authors demonstrate how the problematic of the crisis of historicity, in postmodernity, is where one encounters stasis and overactivity. They argue that contemporary culture, while still symptomatically belonging to postmodernism, perceives our inability to imagine history as a problem, and by that very perception gives time new shape
Biology · Interregnum · Political science · Politics · Transition (genetics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |