Randy Martin

Performance As Political Act: The Embodied Self.

Foreword by Stanley Aronowitz Preface When Consciousness Is Not Enough The Body Disappears Struggles Body Locating the Body Dance as a Social Movement Dance from the Inside In the Theater of Desire Toward a Critique of Politics as Symbolic Acts Bibliography Index

Specters of Finance: Limits of Knowledge and the Politics of Crisis

The recent financial crisis has shaken not only trading markets, but the conviction that the rule of experts reigns in a knowledge society. Instead, the class that was based on a social compact of autonomous control over specialized domains of expertise—the professional managerial class, has seen that capacity come undone. Finance has unleashed an extensive managerialism that has compromised professional autonomy as it has associated professionals under the sign of it’s chief innovative force, the derivative. The derivative logic applies as much to labor as to capital, as much to countermobilization as to dominance, as much to generative interdependence as to expropriating enclosure, how might we begin to recognize and revalue what is otherwise most typically described as a baleful situation for a politics of the social? While arbitrage may seem the apotheosis of anomie, of monadic self-interest, the actions of hedging have manifestly deepened the extent to which what some are able to do is contingent upon what others have done. If knowledge is increasingly required, but unable to master its environment, what might be managed on behalf of one another? The limits to knowledge in this key, pose a challenge to the politics of scarcity that rubrics of performance, profitability, productivity, mastery, and excellence impose.

Coming Up Short: Knowledge Limits and the Decomposition of the Professional Managerial Class

The failures of knowledge to assure a desired outcome, and the gains made by those who bet against it, point to a larger paradox. The rise of the professional managerial class whose specialized expertise would reign in a knowledge society has continued apace yet seen their autonomy wither and mastery fade. The formation and decomposition of this now prevailing class entwines the fate of those engaged in financial services and academic labor, where knowledge was to be formulated, instructed and applied. The question of this larger entanglement, the interdependencies and principles of association that would give the notion of class substantive meaning point to a circumstance in which knowledge cannot rule itself and the collision of knowledge claims creates a generalized condition of volatility that both disperses and binds diverse kinds of human agency. Hence, rather than treating crisis as a momentary break-down in the normal state of affairs, the antinomies of the financial logics of risk management, derivatives and securitization disclose a critical turn in the course of our social surround, the terms in which it might be evaluated, and the sense of time and space through which its changes are negotiated and contested.

Crisis Talk Finance under Scrutiny

Two books, Crisis Economics and Reckless Endangerment, are compared and reviewed to shed light on economic crises and financial scrutiny. The books both look at regulatory mechanisms and the problem of getting regulations right.

Planes of composition: Dance, theory and the global, edited by André Lepecki and Jenn Joy

Critical thought, which had been called so many things, now seems increasingly to be called philosophy. Dance that captures critical attention seems to be replete with kinesthetic abundance, but also conceptually thick. The potential to move concepts beyond the fixity of their received categories might account in equal measure for the present philosophical turn and the interests that dance provides therein. For those already within dance, such attention might provoke anxiety of looking without sufficiently seeing, or excitement that the reflective ensemble generated at the scene of contemporary dance is ready to engage this newly interested audience. Those who have long looked at dance have readied something to which the apparatus of concept formation can now listen. This entails understanding the political through an elaboration of what the body can do—not simply to give presence to what has gone missing, but to assert the means to get to where we might want to go. Dance’s place in the philosophical turn would therefore be to stage a shift between the critique of representation and a critique of mobilization. As an archive of dance’s readiness to restage thought and an opening to the critique of mobilization as what one would love knowledge to do, Planes of Composition stands as a signal achievement. The 18 contributions of dance closely observed and meticulously thought offer a stunning accretion of sites and practices that make it difficult to ignore what intimacy with kinesthesia delivers or what a sustainable concern for mobilization promises. The volume assembles a formidable ensemble of editorial, curatorial, dramaturgical, choreographic and performative powers from writers who hail from many of these positions. By availing itself of these internal differences, the book provides a landscape in which dance goes global, embraces a range of geographical, cultural, esthetic, political and economic materialities of the world. Initially occasioned in 2006 by a commission for the pages of TDR, André Lepecki and Jenn Joy solicited work under the rubric that ‘‘dance composes philosophy composes dance’’ (xi). This circle of composition is in turn shot through with the problematic of mobilization, namely that movement is never left alone to be simply for itself, and it offers no guarantees of either salutary or baleful outcome. In their terms, ‘‘How to choreograph, or how to improvise, a mobilization of limbs and of thinking (never in opposition to each other, but always already chiasmatically coupled in generative assemblages) that does not fall prey to other forces of mobilization at the service of market acceleration and neoimperial dislocation?’’ (ix). The planes of the title are profoundly composite in that

Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives

As we near the end of the century, there can be no doubt that the increasingly global political economy has affected the ways in which universities are governed; the daily lives of academics have been altered as well. In this new volume, editors Jan Currie and Janice Newson consider globalization as combining a market ideology with a corresponding material set of practices drawn from the world of business. Issues of managerialism, privatization, and accountability all central values in business have become primary for universities and their administrators as well. The selections in this book help illustrate the editors contentions that globalization presents clear disadvantages as well as benefits to all citizens. Globalizations effects on higher education are not likely to be uniform nor are the outcomes an inevitable process. The future of the university as a place where society can examine itself critically is at stake and this volume will be a strong contributor to the debate. Universities and Globalization will be of great interest to those interested in higher education, the role of the university, and global institutions and practices.

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