In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a Democracy in the Present tense; one which breaks open Political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth.
Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism..
In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist Democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities—one which cannot be conceived of without social movements’ past struggles and current practices.
Presentist Democracy is without a people and without nation.
Her queer feminist Political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude.
In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a Democracy in the Present tense; one which breaks open Political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth
