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In this ambitious book, Brett Levinson explores the possibilities for a genuinely radical critique of globalized culture and politics-at a time when intellectuals and nonintellectuals alike struggle to understand the configuration of the contemporary world. Levinson seeks to unsettle a naturalized and commonsensical assumption: that democracy and the economic market must be viewed as either united or at odds. Against both neoliberalists and cultural pluralists, he argues that the state is not yielding to the market, but that the universe now turns on a duopolybetween statist and global forms, one that generates not only economic and cultural sites but also ways of knowing, a postdemocratic episteme.Touching upon current issues such as terrorism, human rights, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the notion of the people,delving into the idea of bio politics, and investigating the essential relation between language and political praxis, Levinson engages with the work of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancire, Etienne Balibar, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Michel Foucault, and others.Levinson offers no solutions, but his work will be an important voice for readers looking for conceptual tools to grasp what political and intellectual possibilities might exist in the postcommunist world and how this world has come to be shaped in our time.

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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction: The State/Market Duopoly—Definitions Forthcoming
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. Chapter 1: Gramsci: Subalternity and Common Sense
  2. pp. 19-39
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  1. Chapter 2: Biopolitics and Duopolies: Toward Foucault’s “Society Must Be Defended”
  2. pp. 40-58
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  1. Chapter 3: The People, the Uncounted, and Discardable Life in Rancière
  2. pp. 59-78
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  1. Chapter 4: Dictatorship, Human Rights, and Psychoanalysis in Derrida’s Argentina: One Discourse or Three?
  2. pp. 79-99
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  1. Chapter 5: Levinas and Civil/Human Liberties after September 11: What’s God Got to Do with It?
  2. pp. 100-122
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  1. Chapter 6: If It Goes without Saying: Notes toward the Investigation of the Ideological State Apparatus
  2. pp. 123-143
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  1. Chapter 7: Laclau and Mouffe: The Closure of an Open Politics, or, Undecidability on the Left
  2. pp. 144-163
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  1. Chapter 8: Negri and Marx on Language and Activism: Has Deconstruction Anything to Say Now to Marxism?
  2. pp. 164-189
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  1. Chapter 9: The Culture Wars, Interdisciplinarity, Globalization: Meditations on Cultural and Postcolonial Studies
  2. pp. 190-213
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  1. Chapter 10: “Empire”: Anti-aestheticism, Leftist Solutions, and the Commodification of the Multitude
  2. pp. 214-229
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  1. Chapter 11: Biopolitics/Foucault II: Statements on the New Media
  2. pp. 230-244
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  1. Conclusion: The Frail Empire and the Commodity’s Embrace
  2. pp. 245-266
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 267-276
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 277-279
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