{"id":4136,"date":"2024-08-15T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lscusd.id\/?page_id=4136"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:53:37","slug":"min-seong-kim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lscusd.id\/index.php\/min-seong-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Min Seong Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Quasi-Transcendentality of Hegemony Theory o<\/b>n The Ethico-Political Commitments of Post-Marxism Outside The Usual Context<\/b><\/h2>

Min Seong Kim<\/span><\/em><\/p>

Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia<\/span><\/em><\/p>

minseong.kim@outlook.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>

Abstract<\/i><\/b><\/p>

I explore the ethico-political implications of research in cultural studies in Indonesia by way of questioning the relation between the theoretical and the empirical in Ernesto Laclau\u2019s post-Marxism. As evinced by his disdain for the \u201c\u2018superhard\u2019 transcendentality\u201d of \u201ctheoretical perspective\u201d and \u201cthe mythological world of case studies\u201d (Laclau, 1989, p. xiii), part of what Laclau understands as the \u201cpost-theoretical\u201d moment consists in the overcoming of the relation of exteriority between the theoretical and the empirical. If there is \u201cno commonly agreed, codified, correct way of doing [post-Marxist] Discourse Theory \u2018by to the book\u2019\u201d (Jacobs, 2018), this owes, to a certain degree, to the fact that Laclau\u2019s post-Marxism encourages not some mechanistic application of a \u201cmethod\u201d but rather the creative configuration of a variety of middle-range theories to operationalize its theoretical perspective in diverse empirical contexts (Cleen, Goyvaerts, Carpentier, Glynos, & Stavrakakis, 2021). Although this sort of adaptability appears consistent with his post-theoretical outlook, Laclau has not, in fact, been entirely clear about what might be termed the \u201cquasi-transcendentality\u201d of post-Marxism (Arditi, 2014; Bowman, 2007). His theorization of politics as hegemony,<\/span> for instance, oscillates between, on the one hand, a theorization of a particular historical form of politics enabled by the \u201cdemocratic revolution\u201d\u2014understood along broadly Lefortian lines (Laclau & Mouffe, 1985)\u2014and, on the other, a theorization of politics <\/span>tout court <\/span><\/i>(Laclau, 2005). I suggest that such oscillations regarding the relation between post-Marxist theory and history finally point to the question of the ethico-political dimension of the theory itself. I argue that this dimension is not easily identifiable as \u201ccritique\u201d\u2014understood either in terms of \u201cthe self-clarification of the wishes and struggles of the age\u201d (Fraser, 1985, p. 97) or of \u201cdebunking\u201d dominant ideologies (Latour, 2004)\u2014but implies a commitment to creating the conditions of its own interventional capacity.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/i><\/b> Hegemony theory, Quasi-transcendentality, Post-Marxist discourse theory, Democratic revolution<\/span><\/i><\/p>

References<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

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  10. Latour, B. (2004). Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry, 30(2), 225\u2013248. doi: 10.1086\/421123<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Min Seong Kim<\/h3>\n

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    Min Seong Kim, Ph.D., lectures in the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia. He also edits Retorik, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by the university. His most recent works examine the local resistance against airport development in Yogyakarta, the relation between post-Marxism and the notion of the \u201cpluriverse\u201d, and the ideological construction of the Indonesian archipelago.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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