TY - JOUR A1 - Adamik, Verena T1 - From Utopian Island to global empire BT - Alex Garland's the Beach JF - Utopian Studies N2 - This article discusses how Alex Garland’s The Beach (1996) engages with conceptions of utopian islands, nation, and colonialism in modernity and how it, from this basis, develops a different spatiality that reflects on a more deterritorialized form of imperial domination within late twentieth-century globalization, as exercised by the United States. The novel is shown to subvert, but not to abolish, two spatial formations that originated in early modernity: nation and utopia. Building on Jean Baudrillard’s elaborations regarding simulation and simulacra, the article argues that The Beach creates a hyperreal narrative that does away with the idea of isolated, bounded spaces and that in form and content corresponds with the worldwide dominance of the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/doi: 10.5325/utopianstudies.31.3.0457 VL - 31 IS - 3 SP - 457 EP - 474 PB - Penn State University Press CY - University Park, Pa ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Adamik, Verena T1 - Alien Horrors BT - lovecraft and the racialized underclass in the age of trump JF - The Aliens Within : danger, disease, and displacement in representations of the racialized poor N2 - H. P. Lovecraft’s oeuvre abounds with stereotypes of the racialized poor. As scholars have noted, Lovecraft’s work turns those he viewed as ‘Others’ into ‘aliens.’ Poor people of color (as opposed to the orderly White rural population and White working class) in Lovecraft’s stories are foreign, diseased, and criminal, and they threaten social and cosmic orders as they are in league with a nebulous entity that waits to wreak indescribable havoc. This chapter analyzes three ‘Lovecraftian’ novels published in 2016 - Cassandra Khaw’s Hammers on Bone,Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom, and Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country. These works elucidate the connection of Trump’s 2016 rhetoric in campaign and presidential speeches and the White supremacist imagery used by Lovecraft. In these novels, the racialized poor have a special connection to an astronomical, evil entity à la Lovecraft. As carriers of numinous genes or parasitic entities (literally having ‘an alien within’) they become empowered. They thus occupy a pivotal position in forestalling or bringing about the destruction of societal order; that is, of White supremacy. Exploring the alleged risk posed by this ‘underclass,’ these works seem to foretell current representations of protesters as ‘riotous mobs’ that threaten the body politic Trump sought to make great (and White) again. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-11-078974-4 SN - 978-3-11-078984-3 SN - 978-3-11-078979-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789799-006 SN - 0340-5435 SP - 113 EP - 131 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Albertini, Francesca Yardenit T1 - Peace and war in Moses Maimonides and Immanuel Kant a comparative study JF - The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy N2 - Francesca Y. Albertini (1974-2011) compares Maimonides' idea of peace, as developed in MT Sefer shofetim (Book of Judges), with Kant's work on the notion of "eternal peace" (Zum ewigen Frieden). Both authors develop a historical vision pointed against the use of force and war in light of a framework not limited by historical time (messianic age, eternity). Despite all differences in method and historical context, the authors agree on the notion that universal ethics provides the basis of a determination of right grounded in the will. Maimonides' universal messianism as well as Kant's universal history emphasize the pivotal role and decisive responsibility of the human being in realizing, through reason, the reign of peace and prosperity on earth first envisioned by the biblical prophets. These utopias continue to challenge us, especially in this day and age. KW - Kant KW - Maimonides KW - peace KW - Alfarabi (al-Farabi) KW - universal messianism Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/1477285X-12341238 SN - 1053-699X VL - 20 IS - 2 SP - 183 EP - 198 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brilmyer, S. Pearl A1 - Trentin, Filippo A1 - Xiang, Zairong T1 - The ontology of the couple or, what queer theory knows about numbers JF - GLQ- A journal of lesbian and gay studies Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7367717 SN - 1064-2684 SN - 1527-9375 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 223 EP - 255 PB - Duke University Press CY - Durham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bösel, Bernd T1 - Affect Disposition(ing) BT - A Genealogical Approach to the Organization and Regulation of Emotions JF - Media and Communication N2 - The “affective turn” has been primarily concerned not with what affect is, but what it does. This article focuses on yet another shift towards how affect gets organized, i.e., how it is produced, classified, and controlled. It proposes a genealogical as well as a critical approach to the organization of affect and distinguishes between several “affect disposition(ing) regimes”—meaning paradigms of how to interpret and manage affects, for e.g., encoding them as byproducts of demonic possession, judging them in reference to a moralistic framework, or subsuming them under an industrial regime. Bernard Stiegler’s concept of psychopower will be engaged at one point and expanded to include social media and affective technologies, especially Affective Computing. Finally, the industrialization and cybernetization of affect will be contrasted with poststructuralist interpretations of affects as events. KW - affect KW - Affective Computing KW - disposition KW - emotions KW - event KW - eventology KW - genealogy KW - psychopower KW - theory Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i3.1460 VL - 6 IS - 3 SP - 15 EP - 21 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lissabon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Erpenbeck, John T1 - Psychotherapy as a Model of Value Change Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grüne, Stefanie T1 - Sartre on mistaken sincerity ('Being and Nothingness') Y1 - 2013 SN - 0966-8373 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grüne, Stefanie T1 - Is there a Gap in Kant's B Deduction? Y1 - 2011 SN - 0967-2559 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grüne, Stefanie T1 - Is there a Gap in Kant's B Deduction? JF - International journal of philosophical studies N2 - In 'Beyond the Myth of the Myth: A Kantian Theory of Non-Conceptual Content', Robert Hanna argues for a very strong kind of non-conceptualism, and claims that this kind of non-conceptualism originally has been developed by Kant. But according to 'Kant's Non-Conceptualism, Rogue Objects and the Gap in the B Deduction', Kant's non-conceptualism poses a serious problem for his argument for the objective validity of the categories, namely the problem that there is a gap in the B Deduction. This gap is that the B Deduction goes through only if conceptualism is true, but Kant is a non-conceptualist. In this paper, I will argue, contrary to what Hanna claims, that there is not a gap in the B Deduction. KW - Kant KW - concepts KW - non-conceptualism KW - intuition KW - synthesis Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2011.595196 SN - 0967-2559 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 465 EP - 490 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gunnarsson, Logi T1 - In defense of ambivalence and alienation JF - Ethical theory and moral practice KW - Ambivalence KW - Alienation KW - Estrangement KW - Wholeheartedness KW - Personal unity KW - Internal conflict Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-013-9464-x SN - 1386-2820 SN - 1572-8447 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 13 EP - 26 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER -