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This essay studies figures of arrest and mobility, imprisonment and release, and "rigor and extravagance" in Leo Bersani's writings. Focusing on The Forms of Violence, a study of late Assyrian sculpture coauthored with Ulysse Dutoit and first published in 1985, the essay at once follows and moves away from the book's analysis of "a cage which imprisons nothing." Asking what this analysis discloses and what it occludes, the essay turns briefly to the vast expansion of California's carceral state that forms a historical backdrop for the book's composition. The author reads The Forms of Violence as unseeing this expansion as well as the history of the institution that sustains Bersani and Dutoit's reflections: the museum. Written as a tribute to Bersani, the essay attends to both his style and the movements of his thought.

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This special section gathers activist texts and theoretical reflections on the International Women's Strike of March 8, 2017. Contributors from Turkey, Argentina, Poland, and Italy consider the strike's implications and effects, emphasizing the ways in which it both indexes and advances, both speaks to and spurs, a radical re-politicization of feminism. Texts by Rita Segato and Françoise Vergès provide critical frameworks for understanding this process. All of the texts collected here—essays, dispatches, chronicles, manifestos, and an interview—indicate the urgency and the promise of a feminism that refuses racism, capitalist exploitation, environmental depredation, and state violence.

This essay locates a poetics of fatigue in Lavorare stanca, the first collection of verse published by Cesare Pavese. This poetics entails several related shifts: from emotion to affect, from effusiveness to reserve, and from expansiveness to a limitation that is at once literary and geographic. Critics have long emphasized Pavese's cosmopolitan literary borrowings and noted in particular his engagements with the literature of the United States, engagements that are often seen to have enabled a break with previous Italian poetic forms. Without denying these engagements, "The Decay of Sighing" argues that Lavorare stanca continues the Italian lyric tradition that it also alters from within. The essay thus redefines Pavese's procedure as a matter of staying in stagnation, of accepting rather than denying or taking willful distance from lyric's exhaustion and the nation's.

This dissertation marks out a modernist counter-tradition, analyzing a set of texts that locate critical potential in outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms. I show that such an anachronism, common to Italian and English-language literary culture and, later, cinema, organizes works by Walter Pater, Giovanni Pascoli, James Joyce, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Glauber Rocha. All of these figures, I argue, oppose ideologies of progress by returning to the Latin class long since left behind by progressive educators. Across the political spectrum, modernizing reformers claimed that old-school education, often disparagingly called "instruction," had become a dead weight, an impediment to progress. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to John Dewey and Giovanni Gentile, these theorists declared instruction obsolete, deemed it empty, mechanical, infantilizing, and futile. Time and again, the discourse of progressive education targeted Latin in particular; the dead language—taught through such time-tested means as recitation, memorization, copying out, and corporal punishment—needed to be updated or eliminated, reformers argued, so that students could breathe free and become modern, achieving a break with convention and constraint. By contrast, the authors I study look to instruction's techniques precisely, and they find unlikely resources for a critique of modernity in the very practices that progressive reformers sought to clear away. Registering the past's persistence, these authors themselves persist in what look like most retrograde attachments—to tradition, transmission, scholastic rites, and repetitive verbal forms. But the pedagogies of constraint that they devise—pedagogies that I call "counter-progressive"—repeat the past to radical effect. Thus, against his own early liberal tendencies and a backdrop of broad educational reforms, Pater assigns "mechanical exercise" in his late essays, lectures, and fiction. Pascoli's Paedagogium makes the case for the embattled classical school, complementing the author's defense of this school against a range of reformist detractors. Joyce re-imagines the pensum, or punitive copying of text, as a literary form in "Oxen of the Sun," and Pasolini's Salò radicalizes other instructional rites. Rocha's Claro, finally, marks the limits of the counter-progressive pedagogy that it continues, returning, like all of the works I consider, to school, to Rome, and to a history that it cannot escape.

The category of slavery and modern racism -- The rebellion of the (slave) masses and the Haitian Revolution -- The disavowed "philosophical revolution" : from Enlightenment thought to the crisis of abstract universalism.

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This interview considers Polish feminists' participation in both the Black Monday protests of October 3, 2016, and the International Women's Strike held on March 8, 2017. Majewska and Rakowska attest to the long process of organizing and the ongoing histories that these strikes continued. These are histories of workers' struggle as much as of feminist activism, and both Majewska and Rakowska speak to the inseparability of feminist efforts—including work for reproductive justice—from broader anti-capitalist projects in Poland and beyond. The interviewees thus repeatedly link the women's strikes to movements opposing austerity, environmental despoliation, precarization, and nationalism.

This translation of Rita Segato's seminal book "La crítica" de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as formulated by the Peruvian thinker Anibal Quijano. Segato begins with an overview of Quijano's conceptual framework, emphasizing the power and richness of his theory and its relevance to a range of fields. Each of the seven subsequent chapters present scenarios in which a persistent colonial structure or form of subjectivity can be identified. These essays address urgent issues of gender, sexuality, race and racism, and indigenous forms of life. They set the decolonial perspective to work, and are connected by two central preoccupations: the critical analysis of coloniality and the effort to reimagine anthropology as "anthropology on demand," answerable and useful to the communities previously regarded as the "objects" of ethnographic thought. A Critique of the Coloniality makes an important and original contribution to the understanding of colonial and decolonial processes, drawing the author's experience of feminist and antiracist issues and struggles for indigenous and human rights. This book will appeal to students and scholars working in anthropology, Latin American studies, political theory, feminist and gender studies, indigenous studies, and anticolonial, post-colonial, and decolonial thought

Cover -- Nomography -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Grey Alert, Blue Pill -- The Nomographic Imagination -- Why Do They Call It "Sex" When They Mean "the Ethical Dimension of the Doctrine of Relation"? -- No One's Style -- Desigual, or Difference -- On the Norm Considered as One of the Fine Arts -- Notes.

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Throughout the Americas, an emphasis on the ideal of the family, defined as the subject of rights to be defended at all costs, has galvanized efforts to demonize and punish what is called "the ideology of gender." The spokesmen of the historical project of capital thus offer proof, Segato argues, that, far from being residual, minor, or marginal, the question of gender—of the patriarchal order—is the cornerstone and center of gravity of all forms of power.