Outspoken: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

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In a world of increasing right-wing populism, global capitalism, and a climate emergency, leading thinkers come together to interrogate the meaning and practice of being outspoken. The violence, nativism, persecution, and social hostilities of the twenty-first century demand a call to order: philosophical and theoretical communities must commit their intellectual resources to confronting and articulating the structures, desires, and resentment driving the dismantling of democratic values. Action in the absence of understanding and political vision devoid of inclusive ideas are all the more vulnerable to taking a reactionary turn. Contributors to this volume challenge the return of fascism, dehumanization of immigrants, distrust of science, intolerance of fair and equitable economic models, and suspicion of inclusive political platforms. All, in their own way, tackle the burning question of how we might reimagine twenty-first-century life in the face of divisive forces. Outspoken includes essays by some of the world’s most radical thinkers – Rosi Braidotti, Henry A. Giroux, Amelia Jones, and Slavoj Žižek, among others – who together chart multiple progressive courses for political antagonism and social intervention. Cover Copyright Contents Figures Introduction PART ONE Outspoken Age 1 Trumpism and Its Afterlife 2 The Ebb of the Old Liberal Order and the Horizon of New Possibilities for Freedom 3 Constitutionalism: Jurisgenesis as Polisgenesis 4 Direct Democracy 5 The Prosecution Project: Data-Driven Anti-fascism in a Post-truth, Proto-fascist Era PART TWO Outspoken Engagement 6 The Future of Design: Pursuing Spatial Justice and a Stronger Democracy 7 Activism as Arts Programming 8 Space for Black Joy 9 Hegel and Netflix 10 Free Speech PART THREE Outspoken Policies 11 Affirmative Politics: Beyond the Rhetoric of Lament 12 Anarchafeminist Manifesto 13 Rebellious Mothering: Gendered Labour of Revolutionary Acts in the Time of COVID 14 The “Great Reset”? Yes, Please –But a Real One! Contributors Index