Being the Revolution, or, How to Live in a “More-Than-Capitalist” World Threatened with Extinction

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ID8074355
AuthorsK Gibson (0000-0003-4605-1818, corresponding author), J K Gibson-Graham
Year2013
Volume26
Issue1
Pages76-94
Publication date2013-12-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRethinking Marxism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08935696.2014.857847
OpenAlexW2069406196
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited22

Much of J. K. Gibson-Graham's work has been aimed at opening up ideas about what action is, both by broadening what is considered action (under the influence of feminist political imaginaries and strategies), and by refusing the old separation between theory and action. But the coming of the Anthropocene forced Julie and me to think more openly about what is the collective that acts. In this lecture I ask: what might it mean for a politics aimed at bringing other worlds into being to displace humans from the center of action and to see more-than-human elements as part of the collective that acts? The lecture proceeds with sections discussing (1) elements and limits of a feminist imaginary of possibility, (2) the synergies between a politics of building community economies and the political imaginary of actor-network theory, and (3) the materiality of emerging community economy assemblages

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Collective action · Critical theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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