Correspondence

• Author: A. Fergus Kastle-Michaelson,Eunice Westlund
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128978
• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Date: 01 February 2023
• Subject Matter: Correspondence

https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128978

Political Theory

2023, Vol. 51(1) 237 –240

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Correspondence

Correspondence

A. Fergus Kastle-Michaelson III

and Eunice Westlund

Abstract

This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The

ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective

but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will

political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What

claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-

five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate those claims in

their future contexts? How will the consistent concerns of political theorists

evolve into the questions critical for people decades or centuries from

now? What new problems will engage the political theorists (or their rough

equivalents) of the future? What forms might those take? What follows is

one of the many confabulations published in response to these queries.

Sept. 21, 2036

To the Book Review Editor:

I offer my services as a book reviewer for Jeff S. Wright’s groundbreaking

Brotherhood is Powerful: A Ruthless Critique of White Cis Hetero Patriarchy

(Princeton, 2036). This book is a game changer for democratic theory, an area

in which I have been a leading contributor for three decades, most notably

with my seminal Negging Democracy: Intelligent Machines Against the

People’s Network® (Harvard, 2025), the book that founded the field of

techno-democratic theory.

You will recall Wright’s astounding performance in his 2034 Foundations

plenary at APSA: “Where’s The Beef? Theorizing the Patriarchal Absence at

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