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What Cannot Be Done
- Author(s):
- Omedi Ochieng (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- African Philosophy
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- freedom of speech, frontlash, racial capitalism, late capitalism, revolution
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/xe8w-an34
- Abstract:
- This essay argues that recent catastrophizings over freedom of speech are symptoms of a conjunctural crisis in the North Atlantic world. They index, in the main, a crisis of profitability and deindustrialization in the Global North, as seen for instance in the lumpenproletariatization of the working and professional classes; increasing domestic resistance by racially minoritized groups to police violence and murder; sustained insurgencies to imperialism abroad; the militarization of borders; and widespread crises occasioned by climate change. The writings of Hannah Arendt, I argue, offer an acute angle into how a celebrated thinker in the Global North advanced influential analytical categories for policing this conjunctural crisis. Ultimately, I argue, apocalyptic discourses about the unsayable ("cancel culture," "wokeness," "de-platforming") seek to make unthinkable ongoing and emergent radical uprisings, insurgencies, and revolution.
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- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.55.1.0053
- Publisher:
- Philosophy & Rhetoric
- Pub. Date:
- 2022
- Volume:
- Volume 55
- Issue:
- Number 1
- Page Range:
- 53 - 59
- ISSN:
- 1527-2079
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 8 months ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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