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What gets stranded outside the borders of the political? Inhuman Resources develops an account of sabotage, insubordination, and the invisible activities that undermine the ideas of accountability and identification on which representative politics rely. Drawing from histories of labor, disability, infrastructure, writing, and war, Williams offers genealogies of the tropes of paralysis and sabotage, which leave behind notions of public citizenship to reveal an "inhuman" agency that hinges on the unexpected friction between humans, materials, machinery, and other non-human life. Yet to detect this and move away from fantasies of clarity and visibility, we need to take cues from political and artistic practices that evade such legibility, and are attuned to what happens off-screen and without recognition. Spanning an ambitious range of subjects-from prison architecture to digital animation, legal history to self-help books, and electrical blackouts to silkworms saturated with toxic dye-Inhuman Resources gathers materials for thinking differently about insurgent activity. This is a theory that does not privilege exodus, pride, or autonomy but instead takes shape inside the very processes, architectures, appearances, and systems it seeks to ruin.
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About the Author
Evan Calder Williams is Associate Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. He is the author of the books Combined and Uneven Apocalypse, Roman Letters, and Shard Cinema. He is the translator, with David Fernbach, of a new edition of Mario Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism, and his essays have appeared in publications such as Film Quarterly, Frieze, Estetica, The Italianist, World Picture, Cultural Politics, and The Journal of American Studies. He was part of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine and is a contributing editor to e-flux journal.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.Inhuman Resources centers on what gets stranded outside the border of the political. It develops an account of the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that undermine the models of accountability, public presence, and identification on which representative politics rely.Drawing from histories of disability, anticolonial and radical movements, toxicity, technology, and art, the book deconstructs the patterns and potentials of what Evan Calder Williams frames as "inhuman agency." Such agency takes shape in moments of unexpected friction between humans, materials, machinery, and non-human life and in the legal and economic forms that police the boundaries between them yet paradoxically profit from the erosion of those very divisions in labor, incarceration, circulation, and war.The book follows two key lines of inquiry. On one side, Williams presents an account of what the Industrial Workers of the World termed a "cog's-eye view," the capacity to leave behind a politics of pride and respectability and think instead from an abject position caught inside the production process. On the other, through an extended reading of the medieval law of the "deodand" (in which property that caused the death of a person was forfeited to the Crown), the book thinks through how objects and animals come to be socially and culturally understood as endowed with an autonomous capacity for violence, in ways intimately bound up with the racialized construction of the concept of the human.Spanning an ambitious range of subjects-from prison architecture to novels of circulation, concepts of paralysis, and silkworms saturated with toxic dye-Inhuman Resources gathers materials for a theory of a fundamentally different way of thinking about insurgent activity, one that does not seek exodus, pride, or autonomy but instead gathers its strength by passing through the very activities, architectures, appearances, and systems it seeks to ruin. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781915609366
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