Issue #58 Holding Up the World, Part II: Time/Bank, Effort/Embankments

Holding Up the World, Part II: Time/Bank, Effort/Embankments

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

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Issue #58
October 2014










Notes
1

See Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1995).

2

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2011).

3

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2013).

4

See Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise,” e-flux journal 35 (May 2012)

5

See Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Routes/Worlds,” e-flux journal 27 (Sept. 2011)

6

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press), 294.

7

See Michael Hardt, Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993). Nicholas Tampio has also argued that the “assemblage” is the political subject of Deleuze’s virtual ontology. See Tampio, “Assemblages and the Multitude: Deleuze, Hardt, Negri, and the Postmodern Left,” European Journal of Political Theory vol. 8, no. 3 (June 2009): 383–400.

8

William James, “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy,” in Pragmatism (New York: Dover, 1995), 15–34, 29.

9

James, “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy,” 20.

10

William James, “On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake,” reprinted in James, Memories and Studies (Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008), 86–93, 88

11

William James, “The Will to Believe,” The New World no. 5 (June 1896): 715.

This is the second of a four-part meditation in this issue on the problem of time, effort, and endurance in conditions of precarity, and pragmatic efforts to embank an otherwise.