The power of critique in the time of emergency: on normative fiction and critical fiction
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article begins by reflecting on 'crisis and democracy' as a normative fiction that sustains extant self-other-world relations. An alternative is to frame the present as ‘the time of emergency’, which implies scope for ‘emergent’ possibilities. In teasing out such possibilities, the article makes a case for critical fiction as a way of radicalising our relationship to the present, looking initially to Foucault’s writings on critique before turning to the work of da Silva, who reads the present through the lens of a past that is not past, thereby troubling a future that need not come to pass.
Source: Journal of Political Power
Author: Kevin Ryan
Institution: Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
Language: English
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4403467010