The Aesthetics and Politics of Feminist Struggles and Liberal Internationalism

The Fury Archives considers human rights internationalism as an opening rather than a horizon of claims for early twentieth-century radical movements. Jill Richards’s emphasis on the affective power of struggles rather than their outcomes reveals both the limitations of human rights and also the resonance of the human for resistance to fascism, patriarchy, racism and imperialism. While our contemporary moment confirms human rights as a failed project, it also reveals the recuperation of this internationalism as an instrument for humanitarianism as governance that reinscribes European and Western racial and imperial hegemony even as the human seems itself inadequate for planetary politics.