Imaginable Futures?

Temporality and Critique Now

AvAthena Athanasiou

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Incitements

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Beskrivning

Athena Athanasiou attends to the differential conditions of the im-possible as a way to map out discontinuous and fragile trails of critical and agonistic articulations despite the post-critical realism that organises the present.How might we reclaim multiple contingencies, resonances and afterlives of hope and hopelessness for shifting the authorised terms of im-possibility when our present curtails the possibility of imagining differently? How to make way for sites of refuge and passages for critical temporalities?Athanasiou seeks out ways in which the present has yet to occur in these critical times. She does this by putting forth the articulations of critical theory with the social poetics of loss, longing, despair, dissension and resurgent lifeworlds. Drawing on situated knowledges and counter-histories that have taken critical theory towards unfulfilled emancipatory visions for politics, poetics and aesthetics, she repositions future as a provisional, spectral and fugitive figure of critical thought and collective poesis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-30
Mått:135 x 190 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Incitements
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399566629

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Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University for Social and Political Sciences, Greece. Her books include Agonistic Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Crisis as a State of Exception: Critiques and Resistances (Savvalas/Athens, 2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body, and Biopolitics (Ekkremes/Athens, 2007). She is co-author, with Judith Butler, of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She has published numerous papers and book chapters on questions at the intersection between contemporary critical theory, gender theory, and politics of memory.

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Athena Athanasiou elaborates a critical theory of hope in the most unhopeful of times. Discovering possibility at the site of contingency, vulnerability, impasse, even impossibility, this work addresses political struggles from the fight for a free Palestine to gender emancipation and a postcapitalist order. Athanasiou gathers and lifts us!

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements1. Making way for critical futurities2. At odds with the temporalities of the im-possible; or, what critical theory can (still) do3. Im-possible breathing: On courage and criticality in the ghostly historical present4. Counterpublic performativity, or instituting otherwise5. Avowing the unfoundedness of hope