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Postcolonialism or postmodernism? An interview with Susan Buck-Morss
Chris Mansour
Platypus Review 34 | April
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On February 11, —the day Hosni Mubarak resigned the office of President of Egypt—Chris Mansour interviewed Susan Buck-Morss, professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University and author of The Origin of Negative Dialectics and Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left, on behalf of the Platypus Review. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Chris Mansour: What were the stakes of introducing Critical Theory into a postmodern culture that widely considered its ideas obsolete? Are we in a similar climate today? How does Adorno’s critique of the authoritarian state speak to us now, after the dismantling of the welfare state over the last 30 years?
Susan Buck-Morss: First, I do not think of Critical Theory as something you apply or do not apply. I simply consider dialectics, as a philosophical tool, valid in the same way that mathematics, as a tool, is valid. I do not see it as belonging to a certain era. It is true that Marx and many Marxists argue that dialectic
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You are looking, on a microlevel, at the social relations of a new industrial epoch (fig. 1). The image is a &#;sociogram,&#; charting interactions among university professors and students as
Sociogram of relationships for UICR center B. From J.D. Eveland, Communication Networks in University/Industry Cooperative Research Centers ().
they cross-pollinate with industrialists at a university industrial research center. The sperm-like penetration shows minimal administrative intervention into a budding embryo of research and development. It is upon such informal, nonhierarchical institutions that a brand new breed of capitalists pin their hopes. They have crossed the &#;second industrial divide,&#; a restructuring of capitalism characterized by decentralized production and changed technologies of flexible specialization, technologies that impose a competitive strategy of permanent innovation&#;hence the need to nurture new ideas and to keep their profit-making potential gestating within the proprietary domain of private firms. 1 These idea-producing clusters are enmeshed in global webs that, according to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, cat
Susan Buck-Morss
Susan Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center, where she is a core member of the interdisciplinary research group, Committee on Globalization and Social Change. She holds the title of Jan Rock Zubrow &#;77 Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University, where she was a member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature, German Studies, History of Art and Visual Studies, Romance Studies, and the School of Art, Architecture and Planning. Her most recent books are Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting (MIT Press, ) and Revolution Today (Haymarket Press, ).
Previous books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh University Press, ), Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, ), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, ); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, ); and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Free Press, ; 2nd ed., ).
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