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William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

2025/2/20
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William Parris: 我认为乌托邦思维能帮助我们理解当下时间及其支配问题，特别是资本主义的时间组织与种族支配之间的关系。通过研究W.E.B. Du Bois、Martin Delaney、Marcus Garvey、Frantz Fanon和James Boggs等历史人物，我们可以看到他们如何在压迫中预示未来的可能性。他们的洞见和失败帮助我们去自然化我们的生活方式，并发展自我解放的实践，以实现当前不公正条件下尚不可能实现的目标。我的研究关注的是意识与社会关系之间的互动，特别是乔治·弗洛伊德抗议活动后，我对社会实践的危机和乌托邦意识的生成有了新的理解。乌托邦意识不是被动反映社会现实，而是试图通过新的社会实践来应对危机，打破现有的社会秩序。乌托邦意识与危机意识之间存在非同步的关系，乌托邦意识的成功依赖于新的社会实践的生成，而不仅仅是意识的觉醒。我们需要重新思考种族支配，将其视为时间的支配问题，特别是资本主义社会中对他人时间的支配。乔治·弗洛伊德抗议活动的失败不是因为人们忘记了种族主义，而是因为新的社会实践没有生成，新的社会实践必须能够在社会中扎根。我们需要通过历史人物的失败来理解乌托邦意识的生成，并继承历史中未实现的乌托邦碎片，以增强乌托邦意识。 Sarah Tyson: (提问和引导性发言，没有形成独立的论点，故此处略去)

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How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organization of time and racial domination? Could utopian thinking give us ways of understanding our own time and its dominations? In Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation)* *(Oxford University Press, 2025), William Paris uses the tools of critical theory to draw out the utopian interventions in the works of W.E.B Du Bois, Martin Delany, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and James Boggs. Arguing that utopian thinking gives us normative purchase on the problems of our own time, Paris shows not that these historical figures can tell us how or to what end we navigate our current crises. Rather, their insights and failures help us denaturalize our mode of life and develop self-emancipatory practices to realize what is not yet possible under the current conditions of injustice in which we have come to be.

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