Theory After 'Theory'

This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory' s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well examinations of established areas such as subaltern studies, the postcolonial, and ethics. Influential figures such as Agamben, Arendt, and Badiou are examined in a range of contexts ...

Introduction -- Jane Elliott and Derek Attridge Assessing the Field 1. Philosophy After Theory: Transdisciplinarity and the New -- Peter Osborne 2. Theory as a Research Program -- the Very Idea -- Cary Wolfe 3. Theory after Critical Theory -- William Rasch 4. Extinct Theory -- Claire Colebrook Between theory and practice: affect, will, judgment 5. Perception Attack: The Force t Own Time -- Brian Massumi 6. The Will of the People: Dialectical Voluntarism an the Subject of Politics Peter Hallward 7. The Persistence of Hope: Critical Theory and Enduring in Late Liberalism -- Elizabeth Povinelli 8. The Practice o Judgement: Hannah Arendt's 'Copernican Revolution' -- Linda Zerilli Rethinking the politics of representation 9. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice Rey Chow 10. The Canny Subaltern -- Eva Cherniavsky 11. 'Theory After Postcolonial Theory: Rethinking the Work of Mimesis'- Simon Gikandi Biopolitics and ethics 12. After Life: Swarms, Demon and the Antinomies of Immanence -- Eugene Thacker 13. Inclining the Subject: Natality, Alterity, Ethics -- Adriana Cavarero 14. The Person and Human Life- Roberto Esposito Renewing the aesthetic 15. Th…