Scepticism in the face of the claims of liberation
Does the highlighted part of the following sentence imply "the argument that in spite of the slogan and advertisement of the existence of freedom in the present world, there is not actually any freedom in that meaning"?
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See Clare Hemmings's ‘Invoking Affect: Cultural Theory and the Ontological Turn’ for a very good survey of the recent turn to affect in cultural theory as well as a cogent argument for scepticism in the face of the claims of liberation being made in its name (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).
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That is almost pure jargon. You would need to be well versed in the basics of whatever this is and then read Hemmings.
- That is almost pure jargon.
- You would need to be well versed in the basics of whatever this is and then read Hemmings.
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That is almost pure jargon. You would need to be well versed in the basics of whatever this is and then read Hemmings.
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