|
ABSTRACTS
PROKLA 152 Andreas Fisahn: Repressive Tolerance and the “Pluralism” of the Oligarchies. Tendencies of increasing repression and surveillance are described and different theoretical approaches of explanation are discussed. The author concludes that as an answer to growing social disintegration a development can be found, which leads in the direction of a decision making oligarchy behaving to the rest of the society in a way, which can be characterised as repressive tolerance. Alexander Klose, Hubert Rottleuthner: Freedom secured? This article presents a chronological overview of security legislation in (West)Germany, starting with anti-communist measures in the 1950s and 1960s, analyzing laws against “radicals”, the RAF, and against organized crime, ending with “security-packages” after 9/11. Finally, the bulk of security legislation is criticized from a political as well as a legal-sociological point of view. Loïc Wacquant: The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty. The spectacular growth of incarcertion in the U.S. can hardly be explained by the genesis of a “prison-industrial complex,” as suggested by some criminologists, journalists and justice ac-tivists. Instead we must look at the rise of the „liberal-paternalist state“, in which the prison functions as part of a triadic institutional nexus: The penal system contributes directly to regulating the lower segments of the labor market; it complements and compensates for the collapsing ghetto as device for the confinement of a population considered deviant, devious, and dangerous; and it is directly connected to the logic of welfare-to-workfare reforms. John Kannankulam: Ups and Downs of Homeland Security – from Fordism to Neo-Liberalism. The article explores the relationship between the changes within the capitalist mode of production since the political and economic crisis of the 1970s and its possible effects for the recent tightening of surveillance and control in the private sector as well as in the states' homeland security policies. It is argued that beside these economic changes within the societal relationship of forces, neo-conservative and neo-liberal strategies have to be considered, which, when we take them all together, even regarded from a viewpoint of capitalism itself, often seem to be dysfunctional. Therefore left-wing counter-strategies should not fall into the trap to take the proclaimed Orwellian Big-Brother ideologies for granted. David Salomon: Carl Schmitt Reloaded. Otto Depenheuer and the “Constitutional State”. Otto Depenheuer, who teaches public law in Germany, is rather influential among German conservative politicians, like for example the present minister of the interior. The article shows that the conceptual approach of the conservative catholic Depenheuer depends nearly completely on the lessons taught by Carl Schmitt, who played a crucial role in the development of the Nazi’s conception of law and state. Jürgen Link: Knowledge and power instead of ideology and interest. The paper considers, in its first part, Foucault’s earlier epistemological critique of Marx (“lack of an epistemological incision“, “empirico-trancendental doublet”, “naive realism”). In this context, the complex of “ideology” is considered from a discourse theoretical point of view. It is argued that a clear insight into the materiality of discourses and of subjectivizations is actually lacking in Marx. Within the second part of the paper, a sort of change of direction of the criticism is suggested: It seems evident that Foucault’s way of reading Marx, before 1968, proves superficial and blind towards the crucial epistemological innovations which are characterized as “cyclological” and situated within a logic of reproduction, going beyond the dichotomy of the “empirico-transcentental doublet”. Wang Hui: Forgetting the Sixties. Depolitcized Politics and Hegemony in China. After the end of the “Cultural Revolution” an increasing process of depoliticized politics took place in China combined with a state-party rigidification. This process is analyzed and some similarities and parallels to developments in Western countries are shown. Stephan Lessenich: Relatively Speaking. Why there is (or should be) no poverty in Germany. The article throws a critical glance at the recent debate on the quality and extent of poverty in Germany, a discussion provoked by the Government's publication of the third official “Report on Poverty and Wealth”. Slave Cubela: Cheated generations. Toward the critic of the critical sociology using the example of PROKLA 150 “Hard-Fought Labour”. The text is dealing with the current situation of critical sociology in general and critical labour studies in particular. It tries to show using the example of PROKLA 150 “Hard-Fought Labour” that current labour studies are pervaded by deep uncertainty concerning their aim and field of research and it tries to answer how educational expansion contributed to this constellation. Zu den Autoren Slave Cubela ist Mitglied der Redaktion des “express. Zeitung für sozialistische Betriebs- und Gewerkschaftsarbeit“ in Frankfurt am Main Andreas Fisahn lehrt Öffentliches Recht an der Universität Bielefeld Wang Hui lehrt Geschichte an der Tsinghua Universität in Beijing John Kannankulam arbeitet am Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Uni-versität Frankfurt/Main Alexander Klose arbeitet am Institut für Rechtssoziologie der FU Berlin Stephan Lessenich lehrt Soziologie an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und ist Mitglied der PROKLA-Redaktion Jürgen Link lehrte Literaturwissenschaft und Diskurstheorie an der Universität Dortmund, Mitherausgeber von „kultuRRevolution. zeitschrift für angewandte Diskurstheorie“ Hubert Rottleuthner lehrt Rechtssoziologie an der FU Berlin David Salomon ist Politikwissenschaftler und arbeitet am Institut für wissen-schaftliche Politik an der Universität Marburg Loïc Wacquant lehrt Soziologie an der University of California, Berkeley
|