Abolition : Jochen Schmon

As a political concept, the notion of “Abolition” emerged in the British and French metropolises as a declaration of solidarity with the uprisings of enslaved people in the Caribbean plantation colonies of the eighteenth century. elf-described “abolitionist” associations called on. . .

Resentment : Clover Reshad

In this essay, I approach resentment as a constellation of meanings that perform a particular function with regard to an arrangement of power. As a political concept, resentment has historically demarcated those who lack proper forms of subjectivity, that is, those who only react as opposed to . . .

Dandyism : Italo Alves

In the last decade of French colonial rule in the Congo, young men from Kinshasa were establishing clubs devoted to fashion. One of the best-remembered clubs from that time was the Existos, short for existentialistes, named after the philosophical school of J.-P. Sartre . . .

Time : Emile Ike

The concept of time has been approached in numerous ways in the history of Western philosophy. Discussions on the nature of time have often taken center stage n epistemological theories of human knowledge and in ontological theories of human existence…

Social Structure : Aaron Berman

Much contemporary political practice is self-consciously oriented toward the defense, modification, or abolition of social structures. To the extent that this statement holds true it is unsurprising that structure ought to be counted as a live political concept. There are, however, a plurality of . . .

Fetishism : Allan M. Hillani

Few concepts in the history of Western thought are more equivocal than fetishism. The term was invented in the eighteenth century by the French writer Charles de Brosses to describe the logic of religious “fetishes,” which conveyed almost any form of direct worship of animals, plants, stones…