Manifestos for World Thought (Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies)

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most marginalized sectors of East and West (with particular emphasis on the Middle Eastern and Islamicate) in order to dissect crucial issues of culture, society, philosophy, literature, art, religion, and politics. The book explores themes such as as universality, translation, modernity, language, history, identity, resistance, ecology, catastrophe, memory, and the body, offering a groundbreaking alignment of texts and ideas with far-reaching implications for our time and beyond. Contents Introduction THEORY: PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD Orient, Orientation, and the Western Referent Outside Philosophy Global Thought Colossomania STATE: CITIZENSHIP, IDENTITY, AND POLITICAL TRAUMA If Fanon Knew Dispersing Community No State to Come Toward Language and Resistance TEXT AND AESTHETICS: LITERATURE, POETRY, AND ART The 10-Point Manifesto The Aesthetic Imperative A Vocabulary for the Impersonal Architextualism EMBODIMENT: ARCHITECTURE, OBJECTS, AND TIME Architecture of Modulation One Foot in Front of the Other Seventeen Theses on History The Time of Critique Bibliography Index About the Contributors These manifestos for the future of world thought offer a uniquely global outlook by incorporating forceful examples from both western and non-western regions and placing important movements of western and non-western societies into a theoretical dialogue.