“My own reflection on this question of history sees repetition as intrinsic to its very structure both as a practice of global agency and a narrative form. History, as I see it, repeats and bolsters the colonial project, which continues today in what I have called ‘the war to be human’, a war that is not past but ever-present as the anthropogenic logic propelling planetary catastrophe. History’s participation in the project of reproduction of colonial power and colonial inhabitation calls into question our own disciplinary social sciences and humanities scholarly stories, the forms of knowledge we search for and transmit, the categories and frameworks with which we reproduce the social facts of the life-form of value—the human—and the very world of its colonial inhabitation.”
At the Edges of Command:
Conversations and Reflections on Remaindered Life
Neferti X. M. Tadiar
“Neferti Tadiar’s Remaindered Life (Duke University Press, 2022) is the feminist work for our global present, offering an indispensable framework for conceptualizing the lives of the people in ‘most of the world,’ to use Partha Chatterjee’s phrase. For Tadiar, this precarious present is a story of people who seek to survive and thrive, who persist in ‘becoming human’ against a global economic and political order that wages a ‘war to be human.’ Under the guise of freedom and democracy, this war defines the human against the most disempowered and disenfranchised: poor people, migrants, workers, women, and queer and trans people. Yet, despite this war, formerly colonized people engage in ongoing projects of living.” (Durba Mitra)
Conversations with
Durba Mitra on “An Ethos of Living”
Anna Reumert on “At the Edges of Command”
Erica R. Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir K. Puar on “A Great Forgotten”
Reflection on “Anti-Colonial Planetary Struggle: History, Humans, and Us”
Publication Year: 2026
Language: English
Format: Print
Pages: 144
Size: 4.5” x 7”
Selling Price: Php 520
Leave a Reply