In Memoriam of Stuart McPhail Hall
Each crisis provides an opportunity to shift the direction of popular thinking instead of simply mirroring the right’s populist touch or pursuing short-term opportunism. The left…must adopt a more courageous, innovative, “educative” and path-breaking strategic approach if they are to gain ground.
–Stuart Hall and Alan O’Shea, “Common-sense Neoliberalism”
Summer 2014: Volume 41, Number 2
Intervention / Mandela’s Reflections
Editor’s Note from Paul Bové:
…We decided to gather responses to Mandela as a political figure. b2 issued a call for very brief papers from several spots on the globe and from different generations. Our contributors have given us reason to feel this attempt was a success.
Preface by Anthony Bogues
Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale / The Cry of Hypocrisy: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Discomforts by Hortense Spillers
The Mandela Enigma by Wlad Godzich
Mandela, Charisma, and Compromise by Joe Cleary
Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters by Colin Dayan
Or, The Whale by Jim Merod
Malaysian Mandela by Masturah Alatas
Mandela, Tunisia, and I by Mohamed-Salah Omri
Nelson Mandela by Ruth Y. Y. Hung
Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Politics of Moral Force by Anthony Bogues
Mandela’s Wholeness, Perhaps Infinite by Dawn Lundy Martin
[untitled] by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Mandela’s Gift by Sobia Saleem
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Three Models of Emergency Politics by Bonnie Honig
Democracy: An Unfinished Project by Susan Buck-Morss
The Future of Reading? Memories and Thoughts toward a Genealogical Approach by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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b2 Interview
History Unabridged: An Interview with Stefan Collini with Jeffrey J. Williams
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Articles
King Kong in America by Arif Dirlik
How Global Capitalism Transforms Deng Xiaoping by Ruth Y. Y. Hung
Is Dasein People? Heidegger According to Haugeland by Taylor Carman
It’s Only the End of the World by Ben Conisbee Baer
Passive Aggressive: Scalia and Garner on Interpretation by Andrew Koppelman