Book

Politics of Withdrawal Media, Arts, Theory

'Politics of Withdrawal' considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today.

Author

Edited by Pepita Hesselberth en Joost de Bloois

Date

17 May 2021

With contributions of major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies, the chapters investigate the multiple contexts, possibilities and impasses of political withdrawal – from the radical to the seemingly mundane – and reflect a range of case studies varying from the political thinking of Debord, the Invisible Committee, Moten and Harney, feminist notions of ‘strike’ and ‘exit’, and indigenous forms of sabotage, to the individual retreat as means of reconfiguring political subjectivity. It looks at technological failure as disconnection from surveillance, and from alternative financial futures to contemporary ‘pharmako-politics.’