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Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, “progress = modernization through industrialization,” to which it has owed its political life?Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of difference—these are new forces being mobilized to make another future possible.Revolution Today celebrates the new political subjects that are organizing thousands of grass roots movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism, and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and developing a global consciousness in the process. They are themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across language, religion, ethnicity, gender, and every other difference.Trans-local solidarities exist. They came first. The right-wing authoritarianism and anti-immigrant upsurge that has followed is a reaction against the amazing visual power of millions of citizens occupying public space in defiance of state power.We cannot know how to act politically without seeing others act. This book provides photographic evidence of that fact, while making us aware of how much of the new revolutionary vernacular we already share.Susan Buck-Morss is distinguished professor of political philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Her work crosses disciplines, including art history, architecture, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, philosophy, history, and visual culture.

Susan Buck-Morss examines and stresses the significance of Critical Theory for young West Germ intellectuals after World War II.Looking at the differences between German and American situations during this time period, Origin of Negative Dialectics convincingly sketches the learning process that ended in antagonism. “[The Origin of Negative Dialectics] is by far the best introduction for the American reader to the complex, esoteric, and illusive structure of thought of one of the most seminal Marxian thinkers of the twentieth century. It belongs on the same shelf as Martin Jay’s history of the Frankfurt School, The Dialectical Imagination.” – Lewis A. Coser, State University of New York, Stony Brook

In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a \u201cnew humanism,\u201d one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.

Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, “progress = modernization through industrialization,” to which it has owed its political life?Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of difference—these are new forces being mobilized to make another future possible.Revolution Today celebrates the new political subjects that are organizing thousands of grass roots movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism, and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and developing a global consciousness in the process. They are themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across language, religion, ethnicity, gender, and every other difference.Trans-local solidarities exist. They came first. The right-wing authoritarianism and anti-immigrant upsurge that has followed is a reaction against the amazing visual power of millions of citizens occupying public space in defiance of state power.We cannot know how to act politically without seeing others act. This book provides photographic evidence of that fact, while making us aware of how much of the new revolutionary vernacular we already share.Susan Buck-Morss is distinguished professor of political philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Her work crosses disciplines, including art history, architecture, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, philosophy, history, and visual culture.

Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly and simplistically see antithesis. Thinking Past Terror situates this engagement with the study of Islam among critical contemporary discourses-feminism, post-colonialism and the critique of determinism.In a new preface to this paperback edition, Susan Buck-Morss reflects on the events that have marked the world since the book was first published.

Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly and simplistically see antithesis. Thinking Past Terror situates this engagement with the study of Islam among critical contemporary discourses-feminism, post-colonialism and the critique of determinism.In a new preface to this paperback edition, Susan Buck-Morss reflects on the events that have marked the world since the book was first published.

Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Boot Boyz Biz's Kevin McCaughey and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels on this experimental image-text update of McLuhan and BenjaminRenowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin.Seeing <―> Making: Room for Thought both studies and presents the creative process of constructing ideas with images. By activating the techniques of montage and analogy, the book reveals a wide field of view and a space to engage new critical connections between a multiplicity of objects from the past and present. Realized through an intergenerational collaboration of three cultural producers committed to making theory visible, a transformative anthology of critical essays by Susan Buck-Morss anchors this kaleidoscopic project. Images and ideas sync with Buck-Morss’ perceptive texts on visual culture, history, politics and aesthetics, fusing criticism with visual play and linking collective imagination and social action.In both design and content, Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought builds upon the dynamic sensorium of Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore's book The Medium Is the Massage, Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and John Berger's Ways of Seeing. This innovative volume brings Buck-Morss’ more experimental, visually engaged work to the fore in a way that has not been available in the usual contexts within which her writing has appeared.

This notebook combines photographs by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir with a text by political philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, who teaches at the City University of New York, written in response to the images and to conversations with the artist. Jacir''s photographs depict the former Benedictine monastery of Breitenau, near Kassel. A prison camp in the Nazi era, it became a girl''s reformatory after World War II. These images as well as other photographs taken in Kassel are accompanied by selections from the artist''s diary entries, which investigate questions around the histories of the represented sites. Recalling Walter Benjamin''s reading of Paul Klee''s Angelus Novus, Buck-Morss'' textual response unravels how truth and collective memory are established and how the inextricable relation between knowledge and power leads to the selection of what is archived and remembered. Language: English

This notebook combines photographs by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir with a text by political philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, who teaches at the City University of New York, written in response to the images and to conversations with the artist. Jacir''s photographs depict the former Benedictine monastery of Breitenau, nearKassel. A prison camp in the Nazi era, it became a girl''s reformatory after World War II. These images as well as other photographs taken inKasselare accompanied by selections from the artist''s diary entries, which investigate questions around the histories of the represented sites. Recalling Walter Benjamin''s reading of Paul Klee''s Angelus Novus, Buck-Morss'' textual response unravels how truth and collective memory are established and how the inextricable relation between knowledge and power leads to the selection of what is archived and remembered.    Language: English

"Las lecturas convencionales de la Antigüedad enfrentan a Atenas con Jerusalén, donde Atenas representa la «razón» y Jerusalén la «fe». Sin embargo, como nos recuerda Susan Buck-Morss, los estudios más recientes han eliminado esta separación. Nombrar el primer siglo como un punto cero –«año uno»– que divide el tiempo en antes y después es igualmente arbitrario, nada más que una conveniencia que carece de sentido empírico. En Año 1, Buck-Morss libera el primer siglo para que pueda hablarnos de otra manera, reclamándolo como terreno común y no como origen de diferencias profundamente arraigadas.Buck-Morss se propone derribar varias premisas conceptuales que han dado forma a la modernidad como episteme y nos han conducido a algunos impases posmodernos poco útiles. Se acerca al siglo I a través de los escritos de tres pensadores a menudo marginados en el discurso actual: Flavio Josefo, historiador de la Guerra de Judea; el filósofo neoplatónico Filón de Alejandría; y Juan de Patmos, autor del Apocalipsis, el último libro de la Biblia cristiana. También aparecen Antígona y John Coltrane, Platón y Bulwer-Lytton, al-Farabi y Jean Anouilh, Nicolás de Cusa y Zora Neale Hurston, por no hablar de Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kristeva y Derrida.Buck-Morss demuestra que ya no es necesario dividir la historia como si fuera un niño desamparado que necesita la sabiduría protectora de Salomón. Los habitantes del primer siglo pertenecen juntos en el tiempo, y por lo tanto no a nosotros.Recuperar el siglo I como terreno común y no como origen de diferencias profundamente arraigadas: liberar el pasado para que nos hable de otra manera.«Año 1 es el ejemplo más convincente y elegantemente presentado de un proyecto filosófico de traducción de la historia: simplemente establece el paradigma». Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Universidad de Columbia«Año 1 es una brillante intervención en la cuestión misma de cómo leemos los textos del pasado: una restauración de la búsqueda del significado original sobre una base metodológica y teórica novedosa, así como una importante contribución al estudio de los tres autores tratados». Daniel Boyarin, Universidad de California, Berkeley"

Susan Buck-Morss nos permite descubrir a los islamistas como nuestros vecinos: ni como fanáticos fundamentalistas incapaces de tratar con la modernidad, ni como el Otro auténticamente exótico, sino como gente que comparte el mismo problema global que nosotros. Basándose en esta comprensión, rompe la aburrida problemática multicultural del respeto y la apertura hacia el Otro, enfocando la lucha común en la que deberíamos todos participar más allá de la división cultural. Si a este libro no se le permite explotar en los debates políticos, la Izquierda contemporánea puede cerrar el chiringuito y borrarse a sí misma como agente político de relevancia.Slavoj Zizek