Abstract
Feminist activism aims to work to change the inequitable structures of the world. But feminists themselves get bound up in actions and intentions that are tied to their large object of critique (the patriarchy, the planet, the media, the canon, etc), and the micropolitics of the subjects constituting and constituted by those objects can be swept up in humanistic rhetorical gestures and words. How can we teach the modalities and the genealogy of feminist actions that offer tools for everyday living and for a community practice, and which also offer some ways to engage with the affective matter of the world from a posthumanist perspective, and thereby work to shift cultural attitudes? In addition to the valuable work done by those that tirelessly figure methods of communicating social inequities, the work of research led feminist informed teaching and governance can not only excavate the histories of social, political, speciesist, and biological inequities, but also offer a critique of these positions by the terms of their epistemological construction, and provide different modalities of practice. This article focuses on the latter, discussing how we might design curriculum and engage a pedagogy of recognition for a feminist modal ethics. How modes of feminist new materialist practice take the questions of affect, and agency, to enable ethical political practices is a pressing concern for many communities concerned with generating a planetary ethics. How new materialist methodology is useful for thinking the vernacular political reality was the topic of an intensive discussion and debate that took place in November 2017 in Barcelona. Taking an example of the concrete work undertaken by Barcelona Councillor Gala Pin in relation to the neighbourhood ofCiutat Vella,the article proposes that we explore and extend the genealogy of a feminist modal logics.
Highlights
Modal logics in an age of neoliberalismIn the second decade of the 2000s, the question of political emancipation came to a head with many cultural, economic, and ethical schisms appearing across mainstream political public debates
Taking an example of the concrete work undertaken by Barcelona Councillor Gala Pin in relation to the neighbourhood of Ciutat Vella, the article proposes that we explore and extend the genealogy of a feminist modal logics
How are we to understand the nationalist and populist mode of relation today, as it continues to affect the ethical and compassionate understanding of difference in the world? The Philosopher Hannah Arendt in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, describes the processes of what we describe as genocidal political domains; the results of colonial and European imperialism which continue under economically sanctioned fora that are related to modes of militarism which are likewise contained into specific territories (Arendt, 1958, p.123)
Summary
Modal logics in an age of neoliberalismIn the second decade of the 2000s, the question of political emancipation came to a head with many cultural, economic, and ethical schisms appearing across mainstream political public debates. Keywords Affect, Arendt, Barcelona, Ciutat Vella, feminist, Gala Pin, Grosz, new materialism, modality, temporality
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