Democracy in the Political Present keyword-orange Each reading of this book

Each reading of this book

Constance Penley

ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’s style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’s works: the aggressivity and sexism

what remains of Mao's communist legacy

Democracy in the Political Present keyword-orange Each reading of this bookPresentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism. In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a