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Working with the Negative

Critique at the End of the World

Av David Chandler, Jonathan Pugh, Valerie Waldow

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This edited collection explores the contemporary stakes of ‘working with the negative’ at a time increasingly defined as ‘after the future’, when catastrophe appears less as a coming event than as a persistent condition. Bringing together perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, politics, media, geography, critical Black and Indigenous Studies and critical theory, the volume examines how critique might persist without reliance on promises of progress, redemption or repair.Through engagement with debates on negation, pessimism, opacity, the Anthropocene and refusal, contributors rethink subjectivity, agency, temporality and resistance. Structured around Encounters, Mobilisations and Aporias, the book traces how the negative is theorised and mobilised across contemporary critical thought, opening ‘working with the negative’ as a key problem for critique in the wake of modernity’s exhausted promises. By drawing these threads together, it engages the complexities of ‘staying with the trouble’ of modernity’s entanglements, providing space for critical thought that refuses the impulse to replace them with new ontological certainties.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399560818
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David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster and edits the journal Anthropocenes: Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. His recent publications include: Hope: Shortcuts to a Big Idea (2026); Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon (2025); Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, Governance and Negation (2024); The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (2023); International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches (2021); and Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (2021). Jonathan Pugh is Emeritus Professor of Island Studies at the University of Newcastle. His main areas of research are islands and archipelagos. He has around 100 publications and is particularly noted for his development of what has come to be known as the 'relational turn' in islands studies. His recent books include: The World as Abyss: the Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (2023); and Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. London: University of Westminster Press 2021. Valerie Waldow is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Department of Political Science at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. Her research focuses on critical international political theory, liberal violence and democratic critique, and International Relations in the Anthropocene, with particular attention to intervention, governance, and political imaginaries. She works on critique, epistemic limits, and transformations of political thought, especially in relation to debates on hope and negativity in contemporary political theory. She is co-editor of Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, Governance and Negation (2024, EUP).

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Working with the Negative addresses the problem of critique: what, if anything, comes after the end of modernity’s progress? Competing models have emerged only to exhaust themselves. The theoretical impasse runs deep. This timely edited volume navigates this impasse with interpretive care and precision. It does so incisively not by speaking in unison, but by multiplying its examples, challenging us to apprehend critique—in its restless labor of negation—in the face of ever-looming apocalyptic horizons.

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