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The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism
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Following the provocation put forth by China Miéville in which he proposed the development of an “apophatic Marxism,” this article seeks to advance his suggestion of transmuting Marxism beyond the baggage of its historical experimentation and substantively putting it to work within our present material conditions. In this article, I argue that unlike cataphatic Marxist analyses of the past, the apophatic way is one that is better primed to take seriously the unique plethora of aporias and uncertainties that seem to define the twenty-first century. In particular, I propose that a critical engagement with affects such as melancholy and nostalgia allow us to learn from past political motivations as well as discover and develop liberatory tactics better attuned to the advantages of an intersectional praxis.
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The article advances China Miéville’s proposal for an “apophatic Marxism,” arguing that negation, unknowing, and a critical engagement with melancholy and nostalgia can better address twenty-first-century aporias than cataphatic Marxist analysis. It proposes that active remembrance and a politics of the unsayable can inform liberatory, intersectional praxis.
Key findings
- The article argues that an apophatic Marxism—rooted in via negativa, docta ignorantia, and hyperphatic theology—is better suited than cataphatic Marxism to the aporias and uncertainties of the twenty-first century.
- It contends that melancholy and nostalgia are inseparable and tied to placemaking; nostalgia is “a pining for lost places,” and the post-Soviet collapse (1989–1991) intensified capitalist realism and a “slow cancellation of the future.”
- It points to Latin American revolutionary movements as already practicing active Benjaminian remembrance, e.g., “waking up the shadows” of Sandino, Martí, Zapata, and others, and the EZLN’s “one foot in the past and the other in the future.”
- In a critique of ecofascism, it cites that the Global South produces well below 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while a 2017 Oak Ridge estimate attributes 15% to the United States alone; it also lists mass shootings in Christchurch (51 dead), El Paso (23), and Buffalo (10).
Methods
- Design: theoretical/philosophical essay advancing a conceptual proposal; no empirical study.
- Data or sample: no dataset or sample; draws on apophatic theology, Marxist texts, affect and place theory, and historical examples such as Latin American revolutions, the Soviet collapse, Spain’s 1977 Amnesty Law, and V.V. Spassky’s 1919 poster.
- Main analysis: conceptual and dialectical argument, close reading of sources, and illustrative case discussion; no statistical or formal qualitative analysis.
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- The paper states no limitations.
- Evident from the text: no empirical testing or systematic case selection; claims are interpretive and programmatic.
- Evident from the text: the argument relies on selected historical/theological examples and secondary sources, so its scope is conceptual rather than generalizable.
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The Global South is most in danger for the immediate effects of climate change.
“(b) the Global South is most in danger for the immediate evects of climate change;”
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The totality of the Global South produces well below 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
“(c) the totality of the Global South produces well below 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.5”
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Marx understood the power of apophasis, as shown by his refusal to divulge his ideas on what a communist future would look like.
“Despite sometimes being labeled a cataphatic thinker, Marx himself understood the power of apophasis.”
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Marx preferred to use the term communism to describe the movement that would defeat the capitalist order, rather than as a characterization of the society that would begin to emerge after.
“In fact, Marx preferred to use the term”
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Most eco-fascist arguments place climate change blame on the Global South.
“Most eco-fascist arguments place climate change blame on the Global South, despite the fact that”
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The most recent iteration of eco-nihilism has expressed itself as ecofascism, an environmentalism that tends to equate certain humans with being the primary cause for climate change on Earth and others as the ethical inheritors of the Earth.
“However, the most recent iteration of eco-nihilism has expressed itself as ecofascism, an environmentalism that tends to equate certain humans with being the primary cause for climate change on Earth (and should therefore be subjugated) and others as the ethical inheritors of the Earth (and should therefore be in control).”
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A majority of greenhouse gas emissions are produced through transnational energy conglomerates and militaries that do not care about geopolitical borders.
“(a) a majority of greenhouse gas emissions are produced through transnational energy conglomerates and militaries that, like the emissions themselves, do not care about geopolitical borders;”
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Secularism as a political project lacks its own docta ignorantia, its knowing what in its moment it does not know.
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Dionysius and John Scotus Eriugena understood that a negation of all created affirmations implies a dialectic super-affirmation, a hyperphatic theology in which both theologies are ultimately transcended.
“Dionysius, along with apophatic theologian John Scotus Eriugena, understood that a negation of all created aHrmations therefore implies a kind of dialectic super-aHrmation -what Deirdre Carabine calls a”
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Twenty-first century capitalist realism signifies a second order disenchantment brought on by the failure of its alternatives on a global scale.
“twenty-first century capitalist realism signifies a second order disenchantment brought on by the failure of its alternatives on a global scale.61”
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Benjamin's remembering is about shaping and transmitting history rather than passively preserving it.
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Revolutionaries are able to, through memory, preserve hope for the future without falling victim to the Western trap of teleological thinking.
“Revolutionaries are able to, through memory, preserve hope for the future without falling victim to the Western trap of teleological thinking.57”
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In the past, insurgent critical thinking allowed revolutionaries in Mexico to find in Marxism effective tools for explaining contemporary conflicts through their 1910 revolutionary constitution.
“In the past, this kind of”
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In 1959, Adorno recognized this creeping flattening of history, as nations began to initiate programs to work through their past as a way of foreclosing an active relationship to traumatic memory.
“in this usage 'working through the past' does not mean seriously working upon the past … on the contrary, its intention is to close the books on the past and, if possible, even remove it from memory.”
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The attempt at delegitimizing current radical experimentation, particularly throughout Latin America, continues today through violence that is both direct and indirect.
“The attempt at delegitimizing current radical experimentation (particularly throughout Latin America) continues today through violence that is both direct (e.g.Operation Gideon, the 2020 U.S.-backed failed coup d'état of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela) and indirect (e.g. the attempt to legitimize so-called”
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The remembrance of victims seems unable to coexist with the recollection of their hopes, struggles, conquests and defeats.
“the remembrance of the victims seems unable to coexist with the recollection of their hopes, of their struggles, of their conquests and their defeats.63”
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The continuing revolutions in Chile, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Mexico have been able to enact social movements in the present while actively using the lessons of the past.
“By”
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Since before the fall of the Soviet Union, but intensifying as it crumbled, there has been an attempt to ontologically and epistemologically collapse communism to an historical existence of unceasing alienation and oppression.
“Starting well before the fall of the Soviet Union, but intensifying as it crumbled, there has been an attempt to ontologically and epistemologically collapse communism to an historical existence of unceasing alienation and oppression.59”
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Capitalism empirically produces alienation and oppression on a much wider scale.
“capitalism empirically produces alienation and oppression on a much wider scale.”
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This savagery, compounded by the stalling out of the initial wave of other internationalist socialist revolutions in Europe, constrained and forced the workers' state to ossify and enact repressive measures that were quite far off from the Bolshevik leaders' ideas of building socialism.
“This savagery, compounded by the stalling out of the initial wave of other internationalist socialist revolutions in Europe, constrained and forced the workers' state to ossify and enact repressive measures that were quite far ov from the Bolshevik leaders' ideas of building socialism.68”
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Findingnone givenThe author personally witnessed LRADs being deployed by the Phoenix Police Department against peaceful protestors between 2016 and 2021.
“I have personally witnessed LRADs being deployed by the Phoenix Police Department against peaceful protestors between 2016-2021.”
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Interpretationnone givenSecularization, as a modern philosophical project, is also a kind of apophasis, a political and ontological stance of unsaying.
“After all, secularization, as a modern philosophical project, is also a kind of apophasis -a political and ontological stance of unsaying.”
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PremisecitationApophatic theology often expresses itself in motifs of divine darkness, such as night, shadows, clouds, or mist.
“Often, apophatic theology expresses itself in motifs of”
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Premisenone givenCataphatic theology is a theology of affirmations, the via positiva, which attempts to describe what God is as opposed to what God is not.
“This is in contrast to cataphatic theology, which is perhaps more recognizable, as a theology of aHrmations -the via positiva attempts to describe all of the attributes of what God is as opposed to what God is not.”
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PremisecitationApophatic theology is an attempt to reach the divine through negation, following the via negativa, which understands the goodness of the divine as beyond human comprehension, description, or experience.
“Apophatic theology is an attempt to reach the divine through negation -to follow the”
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InterpretationcitationEco-nihilism tends to be the foundation for both neoliberal policies and climate change denialism.
“For some, it can lead to an”
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InterpretationreasoningLiberals interact with Truth as if Truth itself has innate agency to motivate others, treating speaking truth to power as a statement of social or ontological fact rather than a first step in emancipatory politics.
“Ironically perhaps, the way that liberals interact with Truth tends to be from one agent to another; Truth itself has an innate agency to motivate others (for the liberal,”
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Interpretationnone givenRelying purely upon scientism is also dangerous and turns a blind eye to the more holistic reality of our universe and the politics enacted within it.
“But relying purely upon scientism is also dangerous, and turns a blind eye to the more holistic reality of our universe and the politics enacted within it.”
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PremisecitationApophasis as a philosophical school emerges with Neo-Platonism, and more familiar engagements within Western philosophy occur once it fused with the Jewish tradition by Philo of Alexandria and with Christian thought by Dionysius the Areopagite.
“While apophasis as a philosophical school emerges with Neo-Platonism, the more familiar engagements within Western philosophy occur once it had fused with the Jewish tradition by Philo of Alexandria and with Christian thought by Dionysius the Areopagite.10”
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Interpretationnone givenConventional progressive politics, particularly liberal politics, tend to face ecological crises by doubling down on a commitment to Truth connected to a Weberian conception of disenchanted scientism.
“Conventional progressive politics, particularly liberal politics, tend to face our ecological crises by doubling down on a commitment to Truth, which itself is connected to a Weberian conception of a disenchanted scientism.”
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PremisecitationThose deemed nonwhite and white are wholly socially constructed and have varied substantially throughout history.
“Never mind the fact that those who are deemed”
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PremisecitationApophatic philosophy is not strictly a Western phenomenon; it is an important school of thought in many philosophies and theologies around the world, particularly throughout Asia.
“Yet, this is not to say that apophatic philosophy is strictly a Western phenomenon; apophasis is an important school of thought in many philosophies/theologies around the world, particularly throughout Asia.11”
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Interpretationnone givenOur understanding of the world through reductive literalism is produced through pathways of power which must be adaptively and constantly reenacted so that they may be crafted into our scientific common sense.
“Rather, our understanding of the world through this”
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Interpretationnone givenDarkness represents an absence, but within that absence is a presence: the presence of absence.
“Darkness represents an absence, but within that absence is a presence: the presence of absence.”
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InterpretationcitationDarkness is a useful apophatic theological heuristic because it represents the incomprehensibility of a very unhuman deity and provides a mode of ecstatically annihilating our humanness to strive for union with the radically unhuman.
“Darkness is a useful apophatic theological heuristic in that darkness not only represents the incomprehensibility of a very unhuman deity -such as the Abrahamic God -but it also provides us, as Angela of Foligno argued in the thirteenth century, a mode of ecstatically annihilating our humanness so as to strive to achieve a union with that which is so radically unhuman that it remains completely oc”
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InterpretationreasoningThe via positiva and via negativa are not opposing routes, but merely switchbacks upon the same mountain path which ascends through the cloud layer of unknowing toward the Sisyphean summit of transcendence.
“This is a philosophy which reaches negation through aHrmation, a twisting of doctrines in which the via positiva and via negativa are not opposing routes, but merely switchbacks upon the same mountain path which ascends through the cloud layer of unknowing toward the Sisyphean summit of transcendence.”
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InterpretationcitationThis liberal commitment is elitist, coercive, and self-soothing, and is what Miéville termed revolt through the reveal.
“This elitist, coercive, and ultimately self-soothing political commitment is what China Miéville has termed”
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PremisecitationThe apophatic way, or mystical theology, has for its object God insofar as He is absolutely incomprehensible.
“Both approaches are attempting to connect with the divine, but in an apparent opposition to cataphasis,”
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PremisecitationWhat may be most effective is a hyperphatic Marxism.
“Ultimately, I agree with Miéville in his assertion that”
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PremisereasoningFor many mystics, the consecutive emptying and negating of the self is a chief prerequisite in being able to receive divine presence.
“For many mystics, the consecutive emptying and negating of the self is a chief prerequisite in being able to receive divine presence.”
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Interpretationnone givenEcofascist ideology has already inspired several mass shootings, including at a Christchurch mosque in 2019, an El Paso shooter in 2019, and a 2022 grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York.
“This dangerous ideology has already inspired several mass shootings, including at a Christchurch, New Zealand mosque in 2019 that left 51 people dead, an El Paso, Texas shooter that killed 23 in the same year, and a 2022 shooting of a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buvalo, New York in which 10 people were murdered.”
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PremisecitationPolitical intuition, as Gramsci argues, is not knowledge of humanity but swiftness in connecting seemingly disparate facts and conceiving means adequate to particular ends.
“For an example of a political docta ignorantia, let us take one of the important apophatic characteristics of power -that of political intuition -which Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci argues:”
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InterpretationcitationWithin our solastalgic age, there seems to be an enthusiastic revival to seek solutions through processes of negation.
“It should come as no surprise then, that within our solastalgic age, there seems to be an enthusiastic revival to seek solutions through processes of negation.”
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InterpretationreasoningAn apophatic Marxism is a radical reengagement with Nicholas of Cusa's learned ignorance (docta ignorantia).
“An apophatic Marxism, then, is a radical reengagement with Nicholas of Cusa's”
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Interpretationnone givenA critical engagement with affects such as melancholy and nostalgia allows us to learn from past political motivations and to discover and develop liberatory tactics better attuned to the advantages of an intersectional praxis.
“In particular, I propose that a critical engagement with a,ects such as melancholy and nostalgia allow us to learn from past political motivations as well as discover and develop liberatory tactics better attuned to the advantages of an intersectional praxis.”
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InterpretationreasoningAn apophatic receptivity broadens the ways in which we can know and change the world by taking seriously aspects of the unsayable and unknowable that exist outside of a strictly scientific materialist framework.
“Within this arena of power, an apophatic receptivity broadens the ways in which we can know and change the world by taking seriously aspects of the unsayable and unknowable that exist outside of a strictly scientific materialist framework.”
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PremisecitationMost eco-fascist screeds espouse racial replacement theory, the argument that race is stable and essential for national identity and that those deemed nonwhite are expanding and conspiring to eliminate the white race.
“Most eco-fascist screeds -including the manifestos left by the shooters in the terror attacks listed above -espouse a staple of fascist ideology: racial”
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InterpretationreasoningThe cataphatic Marxist attachment to rationalism and radical enlightenment is not incorrect and gives solid analyses of the world and ways of moving forward, but it is incomplete and insufficient for the challenges of our time.
“To clarify, the cataphatic Marxist attachment to rationalism and radical enlightenment is not an incorrect stance -and it does, in fact, give us solid analyses of the world and ways of moving forward -it is, however, a position that is incomplete and insuHcient for the challenges of our time.”
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PremisecitationThere is to the social world something surplus to any reductive literalism, and the supple deployment of apophatic techniques allows for greater precision.
“Miéville stresses”
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Interpretationnone givenThe apophatic way is better primed than cataphatic Marxist analyses of the past to take seriously the unique plethora of aporias and uncertainties that seem to define the twenty-first century.
“In this article, I argue that unlike cataphatic Marxist analyses of the past, the apophatic way is one that is better primed to take seriously the unique plethora of aporias and uncertainties that seem to define the twenty-first century.”
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Interpretationnone givenThere is a danger in rejecting a purely scientific explanation of the world, manifest in the proliferation of conspiracy theories and climate change denialism today.
“There is, of course, a danger in rejecting a purely scientific explanation of the world -and we see that danger made manifest in the proliferation of conspiracy theories and climate change denialism today.”
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PremisecitationApophatic reflection belongs particularly to periods of crisis, when confidence in established discourses crumbles and authoritative orthodoxies begin to ring hollow.
“As William Franke pointed out:”
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Interpretationnone givenMarxism can be separated from the material realities of the last century and reapplied to the crises of the present.
“I am not speaking here of fascism, which contains no essential truths for humanity, but instead, of a transmutation and revitalization of Marxism that, like the perspective of many of my colleagues and interlocutors, is seen as a heuristic system that is necessarily and inherently able to be separated from the material realities of the last century and reapplied to the crises of our present.”
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Interpretationnone givenSolastalgia can fuel a diversity of motivations and perceived pathways for the future.
“Solastalgia can fuel a diversity of motivations and perceived pathways for the future.”
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InterpretationreasoningAn apophatic Marxism, following Marx himself, identifies with communism as it is dreamed and expected, not as it was realized and attempted.
“An apophatic Marxism, following Marx himself, identifies with communism as it is dreamed and expected, not as it was realized and attempted.”
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PremisecitationWilly Brandt never forgave Gorbachev for allowing the dissolution of the Communist bloc because he was aware that its disappearance would entail the disappearance of Western Europe's social-democratic welfare state.
“[Brandt] never forgave Gorbachev for allowing the dissolution of the Communist bloc -not because Brandt was a secret believer in Soviet Communism, but because he was well aware that the disappearance of the Communist bloc would also entail the disappearance of”
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InterpretationcitationA politics of the unsayable, of incapacity, of unknowing, an openness to being surprised, is a necessary condition for an effective politics.
“A politics of the unsayable, of incapacity, of unknowing, an openness to being surprised, is a necessary condition for an evective politics and is one that Marx also argued for in The Poverty of Philosophy:”
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Interpretationnone givenIn 1919, Soviet artist V.V. Spassky created a work that epitomizes an apophatic Marxism.
“In 1919, in commemoration of the founding of the Communist International, amongst the blood and hunger of the utterly brutal Russian Civil War, Soviet artist V.V. Spassky created a work that perhaps epitomizes an apophatic Marxism (Figure 1).”
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PremisecitationSpace is universal, empty, and a priori, while places are meaning-filled subsections of space.
“As Lisa Messeri succinctly summarized:”
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PremisecitationThe space/place distinction is problematic because space becomes associated with the global, the objective, and the masculine, and place with the local, the subjective, and the feminine.
“But as she also points out, this is a problematic distinction since space becomes associated with”
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Interpretationnone givenThe traits of nostalgia and melancholy are not universal; they have a strong relationship to place, and are therefore also agents of placemaking.
“However, the traits of nostalgia and melancholy are not universal; they have a strong relationship to place, and are therefore also agents of placemaking.”
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Interpretationnone givenThe importance of place to nostalgia is often glossed over due to the way the term is used within common vernacular.
“The importance of place to nostalgia in particular is a factor that is often glossed over due to the way the term is used within our common vernacular.”
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InterpretationcitationThe concept of a living past which acts upon the present and future has always been an innate and integral component to social movements in the Global South.
“has always been an innate and integral component to social movements in the Global South.”
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Interpretationnone givenThe twisting of cataphasis and apophasis transcends and transmutes into an unbreakable rope called praxis, the ideal combination of political education and action.
“The twisting of the vines of cataphasis and apophasis transcends and transmutes into an unbreakable rope called praxis, that ideal combination of political education and action.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.
InterpretationreasoningThe more that we claim to know, the more the unknown reveals itself.
“The more that we claim to know, the more the unknown reveals itself.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.
InterpretationreasoningThrough mourning, a melancholic approach to history allows us to remember as a form of praxis.
“Through mourning, a melancholic approach to history allows us to remember as a form of praxis.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe Havana Syndrome example is a perfect instance of psychological projection.
“This latter example is a perfect instance of psychological projection”
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
InterpretationreasoningThis temporal disruption and embracing of a living past has always been, and continues to be, the revolution's strength.
“However, this temporal disruption and embracing of a living past has always been, and continues to be, the revolution's strength.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.
InterpretationreasoningThe subsequent severing of place from being becomes the initial trauma that fuels feelings of nostalgia.
“The subsequent severing of place from being therefore becomes the initial trauma that fuels feelings of nostalgia.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.
InterpretationreasoningCapitalist realism presents a different kind of apophasis: its broken, mutilated dialectic between past and future has created an annihilation of hope and a hegemonic feeling of an eternal present.
“This kind of capitalist realism presents a very diverent kind of apophasis: its broken, mutilated dialectic between past and future has created an annihilation of hope and a hegemonic feeling of an eternal present.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.
InterpretationcitationThis is the essence of a generative melancholy and nostalgia; for melancholy, at its root, is an identification with that aforementioned lack rather than a loss.
“This is the essence of a generative melancholy and nostalgia; for melancholy, at its root, is an identification with that aforementioned lack rather than a loss.72”
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InterpretationreasoningRecent revolutions throughout Latin America have already innately mobilized active Benjaminian melancholy and nostalgia.
“recent revolutions throughout Latin America have already innately mobilized this kind of active Benjaminian melancholy and nostalgia in highly evective ways.”
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InterpretationcitationCapitalist apophasis negates Benjamin's inherent messianism; there is no longer the now-time speaking back to the defeated ancestors of the past and carrying their banner forward into a hopeful future.
“capitalist apophasis negates Benjamin's inherent messianism; there is no longer the”
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Interpretationnone givenBy casting itself as the natural victor, apophatic post-Soviet capitalism has ushered in yet another disenchantment of the world.
“By casting itself as the natural victor, apophatic post-Soviet capitalism has ushered in yet another disenchantment of the world.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.
Interpretationnone givenNostalgia and melancholy profoundly influence the material ideologies of our world(s), but their influence cannot be pointed to, unmasked, and captured.
“Nostalgia and melancholy profoundly inxuence the material ideologies of our world(s), but their inxuence cannot be pointed to, unmasked, and captured.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
InterpretationreasoningThese depravities are difficult to describe due to their systemic expansiveness.
“These depravities are diHcult to describe due to their systemic expansiveness, which is perhaps why theologians like Paul Tillich describe the capitalist system as”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
InterpretationreasoningWhether capitalist opposition was in practice or in name only does not empirically matter if one analyzes how quickly and brutally capitalism has mutated, subjugated, and colonized the world and minds over the past 35+ years.
“Whether that capitalist opposition was in practice or in name only does not even empirically matter if one analyzes how quickly and brutally -following the disappearance of that dissenting geopolitical voice -capitalism has mutated, subjugated, and colonized the world, along with the minds of most everyone in it, over the course of these past 35 + years.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Capitalism has mutated, subjugated, and colonized the world and the minds of most everyone in it over the past 35+ years.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.
InterpretationreasoningThe scene in Spassky's work is melancholic and dangerous, a far cry from archetypical depictions of the New Soviet Man or idyllic glory of socialist achievements.
“The scene is melancholic and dangerous, a far cry from archetypical depictions of the New Soviet Man or the idyllic glory of socialist achievements.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
InterpretationreasoningThe entirety of this planet exists as a post-Soviet space.
“I argue that the entirety of this planet exists as a post-Soviet space (place?).”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimIt may state two separate claims as one.
InterpretationcitationTo retain its legitimacy, capitalism has to demonstrate how it works better even for the workers and the poor, and the moment this alternative vanishes, elites can proceed to dismantle the welfare state.
“To retain its legitimacy, capitalism has to demonstrate how it works better even for the workers and the poor, and the moment this alternative vanishes, elites can proceed to dismantle the welfare state.48”
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- Rests on an assumption: To retain its legitimacy, capitalism has to demonstrate how it works better even for the workers and the poor.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.
InterpretationreasoningThe revolution, personified in the weary survivor, has not sunken into the waves of depression and defeat, but is persisting in active apophasis, a praxis of melancholy.
“The revolution, personified in this weary survivor, has not sunken into the waves of depression and defeat, but is persisting in active apophasis, a praxis of melancholy”
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InterpretationcitationThis pining for places that no longer exist within space and/or time is why melancholy is inseparable from nostalgia.
“This”
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Interpretationnone givenNostalgia's essence is dependent on the activity of placemaking, a practice in which it is necessary to secure a deep, emotional connection to occupied spaces.
“Yet nostalgia's essence is dependent on the activity of placemaking, a practice in which it is necessary to secure a deep, emotional connection to occupied spaces.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimIt may state two separate claims as one.
PremisecitationApophatic mystery is an important component to systemic analysis because mystery is polysemic and there is always something more to oppression than can be said.
“Apophatic mystery is an important component to systemic analysis”
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Interpretationnone givenThe trauma of the collapsing of the Soviet Union profoundly reshaped the material and affective geopolitics of our planet.
“The trauma that was the collapsing of the Soviet Union, beginning in 1989 and fully crumbling by 1991, is an event that profoundly reshaped the material and avective geopolitics of our planet.”
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Interpretationnone givenBenjamin's practice of remembering as a militant melancholic lament was almost certainly drawn from Jewish mysticism, in particular the act of zekher.
“Benjamin's practice of remembering as a militant melancholic lament was almost certainly drawn from Jewish mysticism -in particular the act of zekher, that is, re-actualizing memory within one's present experience”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
PremisecitationNostalgia is not merely a matter of regret for lost times; it is also a pining for lost places, for places we have once been in yet can no longer reenter.
“As Edward Casey has argued:”
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InterpretationcitationThrough melancholy, many of the victims have been fighting for justice, and in 2010, they convinced Argentinean criminal courts to begin an investigation to indict surviving Francoist officials and charge them with crimes against humanity.
“However, through this melancholy, and putting”
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InterpretationreasoningWhat the author sees in Spassky's work is the anxiety caused by the vicissitudes of war, especially considering the time in which it was created.
“Yet what I see in this work is the anxiety caused by the vicissitudes of war, especially considering the time in which it was created.”
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Interpretationnone givenCapitalist realism is more coercive of the past, hoping to place history in a kind of stasis.
“Capitalist realism, on the other hand, is more coercive of the past, hoping to place history in a kind of stasis.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
PremisecitationPlace is both constructed by, and constitutes meaning for, the practices of everyday life.
“Place is both constructed by, and constitutes meaning for, the practices of everyday life.43”
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Interpretationnone givenThis is the hyperphasis that Carabine alluded to; the middle way that has stored enough revolutionary force so as to attain escape velocity from the paralysis of liberalism.
“This is the”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.
InterpretationcitationCapitalist realism depends on the flattening of past tragedies to promote an inactive remembrance that is easier to categorize and control.
“Capitalist realism takes the opposite approach and depends on the xattening of past tragedies to promote an inactive remembrance that is much easier to categorize and control.”
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PremisecitationFor Balibar, incompleteness (inachèvement) is not only necessary for philosophy but must be made active, into a verb: to incomplete (inachever).
“For Étienne Balibar, this incompleteness (inachèvement) is not only necessary for philosophy, but must be made active, into a verb: to incomplete (inachever).”
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InterpretationcitationThe intensification of neoliberalism might better be understood as a refinement of Aimé Césaire's terrific boomerang effect of colonialism wherein North Atlantic foreign policy has come home to roost domestically.
“For example, the intensification of neoliberalism might better be understood as a refinement of what Aimé Césaire called the”
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InterpretationreasoningThe word unspeakable expresses an inherent particularity within the depravities of capitalism.
“The word”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.
PremisecitationThe ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make diverently.”
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PremisecitationThe effects of this super-colonization is what Mark Fisher has called capitalist realism: the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.
“The evects of this super-colonization is what Mark Fisher has called capitalist realism:”
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InterpretationreasoningBrandt knew that the capitalist system is ready to make considerable concessions to the workers and the poor only if there is a serious threat of an alternative mode of production that promises workers their rights.
“That is to say, Brandt knew that the capitalist system is ready to make considerable concessions to the workers and the poor only if there is a serious threat of an alternative, of a diverent mode of production that promises workers their rights.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: The capitalist system is ready to make considerable concessions to the workers and the poor only if there is a serious threat of an alternative mode of production that promises workers their rights.
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Interpretationnone givenOpening the ways of knowing beyond cataphatic thought allows us to parse subtle distinctions, such as between the unspeakable and the unsayable.
“Opening the ways of knowing beyond cataphatic thought allows us to parse subtle distinctions; for example, let us examine the nuance between that which is unspeakable and that which is unsayable.”
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The paper relies on this without support.
The twenty-first century is defined by a unique plethora of aporias and uncertainties.
“the unique plethora of aporias and uncertainties that seem to define the twenty-first century.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Marxism is a heuristic system that can necessarily and inherently be separated from the material realities of the last century and reapplied to the crises of the present.
“is seen as a heuristic system that is necessarily and inherently able to be separated from the material realities of the last century and reapplied to the crises of our present.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Capitalism has mutated, subjugated, and colonized the world and the minds of most everyone in it over the past 35+ years.
“capitalism has mutated, subjugated, and colonized the world, along with the minds of most everyone in it, over the course of these past 35 + years.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The capitalist system is ready to make considerable concessions to the workers and the poor only if there is a serious threat of an alternative mode of production that promises workers their rights.
“the capitalist system is ready to make considerable concessions to the workers and the poor only if there is a serious threat of an alternative, of a diverent mode of production that promises workers their rights.”
The paper relies on this without support.
To retain its legitimacy, capitalism has to demonstrate how it works better even for the workers and the poor.
“To retain its legitimacy, capitalism has to demonstrate how it works better even for the workers and the poor”
The paper relies on this without support.
The broken, mutilated dialectic between past and future has created an annihilation of hope and a hegemonic feeling of an eternal present.
“its broken, mutilated dialectic between past and future has created an annihilation of hope and a hegemonic feeling of an eternal present.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Peasant radicalism has a deep revolutionary tradition in many parts of Latin America.
“Peasant radicalism, in particular, has a deep revolutionary tradition in many parts of Latin America”
The paper relies on this without support.
An overwhelming amount of Francoist Spain's victims were socialists and communists.
“It should be pointed out that an overwhelming amount of Francoist Spain's victims were socialists and communists.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The 1977 Amnesty Law guaranteed impunity for all fascist crimes during the Civil War and during Franco's reign.
“This”
The paper relies on this without support.
The U.S. regime has been using long-range acoustic device (LRAD) weapons against its own people since at least the 2009 G20 Summit protests in Pittsburgh.
“since the U.S. regime has been using long-range acoustic device (LRAD) weapons against its own people since at least the 2009 G20 Summit protests in Pittsburgh”
The paper relies on this without support.
Claims that Cuban sonic weapons are being used against Western embassies are unsubstantiated.
“unsubstantiated claims that Cuban sonic weapons are being used against Western embassies”
The paper relies on this without support.
In 1919, the Russian Revolution was being ideologically and materially attacked by the remnants of Tsarist loyalists, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, as well as fascist paramilitary groups like the Black Hundreds and the nascent Freikorps.
“In 1919, the Russian Revolution was being ideologically and materially attacked by not only the remnants of Tsarist loyalists, but also the entirety of the reactionary world: the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, as well as fascist paramilitary groups like the Black Hundreds and even the nascent Freikorps.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The initial wave of other internationalist socialist revolutions in Europe stalled out.
“the stalling out of the initial wave of other internationalist socialist revolutions in Europe”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Genovese, T. R.
- Affiliations
- State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Genovese, Taylor R.
- ORCID
- Genovese, Taylor R.
- Venue
- Political Theology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2025-03-04
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 599-615
- ISSN
- 1462-317X (ISSN-L)
- 1743-1719
- OpenAlex
- W4408157011
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 56
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- philarchive.org
- Locations
- Political Theology (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Templeton Religion Trust (TRT0204-R)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
- Keywords
- China Miéville, melancholy, nostalgia, aporia, affect, intersectionality, Marxism, 21st century
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