Democracy in the Political Present

Presentist 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 fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilitiesone which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.

Auteur

Isabell Lorey

Résumé
A queer feminist theory of democracy

Contenu

Introduction: Democracy in present tense
Ch 1 Rousseau: Assembly instead of representation
Ch 2 Derrida: Democracy-to-come
Ch 3 Benjamin: Leaps of Now-Time
Ch 4 Foucault: infinite presence
Ch 5 Negri: Democracy and constituting power
Ch 6 Presentist Democracy: Practices of care and queer debts