Search Results

Advanced Search

16 to 17 of 17 results

Sort by:

Filter by:

Contributors

Article Types

Authors

The Pessimist’s Optimist

Kevin Okoth: Beyond the Postcolony, 10 July 2025

Brutalism 
by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran.
Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024, 978 1 4780 2558 0
Show More
Show More
... clear how Mbembe’s thinking here differs from that of Chakrabarty or the posthumanist feminist Donna Haraway, who has also questioned the categories of human, animal and technological, and emphasised the planetary scale of ‘extraction’. Mbembe is a master synthesiser: he is interesting precisely because he arranges familiar information in new and ...

Who do you think you are?

Jacqueline Rose: Trans Narratives, 5 May 2016

... Shakespeare described man as a thing of ‘shreds and patches’, Freud as a ‘prosthetic God’, Donna Haraway as a cyborg. Rebarbative as it may at first seem, Stryker’s vision is the most inclusive. Enter my world: ‘I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I.’ What you would most violently repudiate is an inherent and ...

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences