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O My Friends, There is No Friend

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The porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renov...
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Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human. This volume includes interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Leela Gandhi and Leanne Simpson.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 124
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 03 June 2025
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837670264
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Matt Hern is a founder and co-director of Solid State Community Industries.
Am Johal is the Director of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Acknowledgements 9
1. Staying Inside 11
2. Bound up 17
3. Amity Lines 25
Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy 31
4. What Are Friends? 39
5. What Are Politics? 45
6. Staking Claims 51
Interview with Leela Gandhi 59
7. Kith and Kin 65
8. Anyone Who Likes Cats and Dogs Is a Fool 71
9. On Gentleness 79
Interview with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 87
10. This Time of Fires 95
11. The Capture of Time 105
12. A Borderless World 113
Bibliography 119