Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling
Autor Lida Maxwellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190920036
ISBN-10: 0190920033
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 206 x 140 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190920033
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 206 x 140 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
The book places Manning within a surprising but thoughtful lineage of historical "outsiders" On the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising last June, Manningended her message with the three words with which she hashtags her most optimistic, radical, and ferocious tweets: "We Got This."Maxwell's reading of Manning's "We" as a collective of outsider truth-tellers, "creating new scenes of reality," is as apt as it is inspiring.
At a time when the understandable response to Trump's post-truth regime is to call for a return to facts and reason, Maxwell resurrects an alternative archive of insurgent truth tellers, figures whose credibility can never be assumed, who understand that getting a hearing is as important as getting it right-and that it may be twice as difficult. This is that rarest of books: of the moment and for the ages
Lida Maxell's Insurgent Truth is an extraordinary book, and timely, because it creatively and thoughtfully uses the example of Chelsea Manning to re-imagine 'the politics of truth.'
Chelsea Manning is one of my sheroes, and Lida Maxwell does her justice in Insurgent Truth. She positions Manning, like Cassandra and Socrates before her, as on outsider who not only speaks an unwelcome truth, but who is an unwelcome messenger for bearing that truth. In doing so and being that, Manning's truth-telling practice functions like an ancient oracle for our present day. Her truth-telling shatters everyday common sense-regarding war, surveillance, technology, gender-and summons from it a new ethical ground from which to launch abetter world. The radical politics of truth Maxwell so cogently elucidates are precisely those we need today, when "truth" itself is under assault
Lida Maxwell performs a public service by putting a name to, and insightfully analyzing, an all too common and deeply troubling phenomenon: individuals who do not fit the mold of white, cis-gendered, male authority figures are not recognized as neutral, credible sources when they expose systemic injustice, no matter how significant their disclosures. By bringing 'outsider truth-telling' into focus through a close and creative reading of the heroic revelations of Chelsea Manning, Maxwell helps us better appreciate the fact that when people on the margins divulge important information, they also contest the larger social and political structures that perpetuate secrecy and domination in the first place. This is an urgent, erudite, and inspiring book, and one that embodies the truth-telling that is its subject.
At a time when the understandable response to Trump's post-truth regime is to call for a return to facts and reason, Maxwell resurrects an alternative archive of insurgent truth tellers, figures whose credibility can never be assumed, who understand that getting a hearing is as important as getting it right-and that it may be twice as difficult. This is that rarest of books: of the moment and for the ages
Lida Maxell's Insurgent Truth is an extraordinary book, and timely, because it creatively and thoughtfully uses the example of Chelsea Manning to re-imagine 'the politics of truth.'
Chelsea Manning is one of my sheroes, and Lida Maxwell does her justice in Insurgent Truth. She positions Manning, like Cassandra and Socrates before her, as on outsider who not only speaks an unwelcome truth, but who is an unwelcome messenger for bearing that truth. In doing so and being that, Manning's truth-telling practice functions like an ancient oracle for our present day. Her truth-telling shatters everyday common sense-regarding war, surveillance, technology, gender-and summons from it a new ethical ground from which to launch abetter world. The radical politics of truth Maxwell so cogently elucidates are precisely those we need today, when "truth" itself is under assault
Lida Maxwell performs a public service by putting a name to, and insightfully analyzing, an all too common and deeply troubling phenomenon: individuals who do not fit the mold of white, cis-gendered, male authority figures are not recognized as neutral, credible sources when they expose systemic injustice, no matter how significant their disclosures. By bringing 'outsider truth-telling' into focus through a close and creative reading of the heroic revelations of Chelsea Manning, Maxwell helps us better appreciate the fact that when people on the margins divulge important information, they also contest the larger social and political structures that perpetuate secrecy and domination in the first place. This is an urgent, erudite, and inspiring book, and one that embodies the truth-telling that is its subject.
Notă biografică
Lida Maxwell is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Public Trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes.