Issue 9

Cultivating Solidarity through Radical Subjectivity: A Review of Noor Ghazal Aswad’s  Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements

Cultivating Solidarity through Radical Subjectivity: A Review of Noor Ghazal Aswad’s Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements

By: Samantha Guajardo
Through engagement with radical subjects and their experiences, Aswad encourages readers to reconsider whose voices carry epistemic authority and how solidarity emerges through encounters with those confronting oppressive conditions firsthand (18-19). Situated at the confluence of rhetoric and critical cultural studies, Searching for Solidarity offers a compelling framework for understanding how solidarity takes shape through relationships with those engaged in revolutionary struggle

Truth Beyond Reason: Speculative Fictions and the Mad Imagination

Truth Beyond Reason: Speculative Fictions and the Mad Imagination

By: Cavar
“A Maddened rhetorical imagination, a Maddened literary imagination, and a Mad poetic imagination, are necessary to fighting sane hegemony. These imaginative practices, I have argued, not only allow us to see and believe in the lived realities we have been taught to call ‘not yet,’ but also to discern in them practices of resistance usable here and now.”