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2015 Volume 11 Jacques Ranciere Katerina Kolozova Oxana Timofeeva Craig Gent Creston Davis Artan Sadiku Gianni Vattimo and Sant Volume 11 2015 Jacques Ranciere Katerina Kolozova Oxana Timofeeva Craig Gent Creston Davis Artan Sadiku Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Tibor Rutar Zdravko Saveski Conversation with Richard Seymour Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture IDENTITIES - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture EXECUTIVE EDITORS This issue of IDENTITIES - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture Katerina Kolozova is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe Žarko Trajanoski EDITORIAL MANAGER Artan Sadiku ASSISTANT EDITOR Jordan Šišovski ADVISORY BOARD Senka Anastasova, Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Joan Copjec, Akis Gavrillidis, Marina Gržini}, Jack Halberstam, Creston Davis, François Laruelle, Dona Kolar-Panov, Artan Sadiku, Svetlana Slapšak DESIGN & LAYOUT koma.mk EDITORIAL OFFICE Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje IDENTITIES - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture Address: Street “20 Oktomvri” (ISSN 1857- 8616) nr.8, second floor Is a peer reviewed international journal that seeks to serve 1000 Skopje, Macedonia as a platform for the theoretical production of Southeastern Phone/Fax: +389 2 3113 059 Europe and enable its visibility and an opening for international Email: [email protected] debate with authors from both the “intellectual centers” and the “intellectual margins” of the world. It is particularly interested in IDENTITIES - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture promoting theoretical investigations which see issues of politic, (ISSN 1857- 8616) gender and culture as inextricably interrelated. It is open to all theoretical strands, to all schools and non-schools of thought without prioritizing any of the canonical Masters of philosophy. PUBLISHER It does not seek doctrinal consistency, but it seeks consistency Institute of Social in rigor of investigation which can combine frameworks of Sciences and Humanities - Skopje, interpretation derived from various and sometimes opposed 2 Street “20 Oktomvri”nr.8, second floor schools of thought. Our passion is one for topics rather than 1000 Skopje, Macedonia philosophical masters. Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture / Vol. 11 / 2015 / The Future of the Idea of the Left IDENTITIES Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture Vol. 11 / 2015 The Future of the Idea of the Left Contents 7 Jacques Ranciere Tibor Rutar 84 Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics The Rise of the Right in Times of Capitalist Crisis: A Materialist Explanation 19 Katerina Kolozova Metaphysics of Finance Economy Zdravko Saveski 100 of its Radicalization as The Method Trade Unions, Workers and the Protection of Revoking Real Economy of Workers’ Rights: a Vicious Circle with No Escape? 32 Oxana Timofeeva Unconscious Desire for Communism Conversation with Richard Seymour 114 Perspectives of the left in Europe 49 Craig Gent With Our Backs to the Future 61 Creston Davis Organizing for Life 67 Artan Sadiku Contracting a radical democracy in the Balkans - The return of the people as a possibility for a leftist Copyright © Identities 2015. All rights reserved. Except for the inauguration of politics quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, 81 Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala photocopying, recording or otherwise, without a prior permission of 3 How to Weaken the EU Frame the publisher. 4 Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture / Vol. 11 / 2015 / The Future of the Idea of the Left The Future of the Idea of the Left 5 6 Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture / Vol. 11 / 2015 / The Future of the Idea of the Left Jacques Rancière Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics Bionote categories play an important role in this as well. By defining a now, a before and an after, and in Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy connecting them together within the narrative, they at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The predetermine the way in which the common world is Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short given to us in order to perceive it and to think it as Voyages to the Land of the People, The Future of the well as the place given to everyone who occupies it and Image, and The Nights of Labor. the capacity by which each of us then has to perceive Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics truth. The narrative of time at once states what the flow of time makes possible as well as the way in Abstract which the inhabitants of time can grasp (or not grasp) these “possibles.” This articulation is a fiction. In this sense, politics and forms of knowledge are established I would like to recall several ideas that have supported by way of fictions including as well works that are the entirety of my work for the past 40 years: deemed to be of the imagination. And the narrative forms of worker emancipation and the regimes of time is at the heart of these fictions that structure of the identification of art; the transformations of the intelligibility of these situations, which is to say literary fiction and the principles of democracy; the as well, their acceptability. The narrative of time is presuppositions of historical science and the forms always at the same time a fiction of the justice of time. of consensus by today’s dominant apparatuses. What unites all these areas of research is the attention to the way in which these practices and forms of knowledge The title I have chosen for this intervention is: time, imply a certain cartography of the common world. I narrative, and politics. To give a proper introduction to have chosen to name this system of relations between it, I would like to recall several ideas that support this ways of being, doing, seeing, and thinking that reflection because they have also supported the entirety determine at once the common world and the ways in 7 of my work for the past 40 years concerning objects which everyone takes part within it the “distribution and areas of research that apparently seem distant of the sensible.” But it must also be said that temporal Jacques Rancière I Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics from each other: forms of worker emancipation and the But it is important to be clear about the meaning of regimes of the identification of art; the transformations this word: a fiction is not the invention of an imaginary of literary fiction and the principles of democracy; the world. It is the construction of a framework at heart of presuppositions of historical science and the forms of which subjects, things, and situations can be perceived as consensus by today’s dominant apparatuses. What unites being linked together within a common world and where all these areas of research is the attention to the way in events can be thought in a way as to be organized into an which which these practices and forms of knowledge intelligible sequence. In this sense, politics and forms of imply a certain cartography of the common world, of the knowledge are established by way of fictions including forms of visibility and invisibility that structure it, the as well works that are deemed to be of the imagination. way in which which subjects occupy it according to forms And the narrative of time is at the heart of these fictions of co-existence and exclusion, wherein events and forms that structure the intelligibility of these situations, which of events are identified, wherein the possible and the is to say as well, their acceptability. The narrative of time impossible are determined according to all these varying is always at the same time a fiction of the justice of time. elements. I have chosen to name this system of relations This expression, “justice of time,” recalls the phrase between ways of being, doing, seeing, and thinking that used by Anaximander concerning the manner in which determine at once the common world and the ways in things suffer the payment of their injustice according to which everyone takes part within it the “distribution the order of time. This phrase is better known by way of the sensible.” But it must also be said that temporal of the commentary which Heidegger granted to it. But categories play an important role in this as well. By the way in which I want to place the central focus of my defining a now, a before and an after, and in connecting talk today in the relation between justice and the order of them together within the narrative, they predetermine time is quite different than Heidegger. the way in which the common world is given to us in order to perceive it and to think it as well as the place For me it seems essential to recall this fictional given to everyone who occupies it and the capacity by structuration of time up against the analyses of our which each of us then has to perceive truth. A narrative present that have flourished during the past 25 years. of time always defines at once two things. On one hand, Indeed, the collapse of the Soviet empire was credited it defines the framework of experience: that which is now to a rather simple view of our time. It was said that with present, the way in which this present is linked to a past the collapse, it was not merely an economic and state or detaches itself from it, whereby it allows or forbids system that fell into rubble, but it was also an entire certain futures. But at the same time, it also defines ways age of history that had come to an end – the age that of being in time, which is to say, ways of being attune had granted time the responsibility to bring about a with it or not, of participating – by way of the mode of hidden truth within the heart of the movement of things accord or discord— with a power of truth or error linked themselves and which identified the arrival of this to this flowing of time.
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