Wie konnte aus allgemeiner Verunsicherung politische Macht entstehen? Die Frage, die man sich jetzt allerorts stellt, ratlos hier und hinterlistig da, hat wenigstens im politischen Lied vergangener Zeit eine klare Antwort: „Frag den Mittelstand. Frag den Mittelstand“. Im Ernst: Seit geraumer […]
After the outbreak of the global economic crisis in 2008, Greece was the first Euro-area country where the neoliberal ‘shock doctrine’ was imposed. This was an attempt to place all the fallout of the systemic capitalist crisis on the shoulders
«Does Social Democracy Hold Up Half the Sky? The Decline of PASOK and the Rise of SYRIZA in Greece»
A Letter on Gramsci’s Thought Rinascita, 15 March 1968 Translated from Italian by Warren Montag On December 1, 1967, Comrade Rino Dal Sasso published a response to a chapter from Louis Althusser’s Reading Capital that appeared in the journal Trimestre
A Letter from Louis Althusser on Gramsci’s Thought
The reference in the title Riot. Strike. Riot will be abundantly clear to readers of Marx. It is reference to the formulas that open volume one of Capital, C-M-C and more importantly M-C-M’ or Money. Commodity. Money Prime. It is the
The Modality of Necessity: On Clover’s Riot. Strike. Riot
We do not imagine in stasis. Consider the infant’s first steps: they are not merely some physiological twitch or automatic reaction, they depend on the ability of the infant to recall the past, consider potential futures, and coordinate that
On borders, financialization, movement and the imagination
In November 2015, Verso Books sent a copy of Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams to every member of the UK’s Labour Shadow Cabinet. The shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, at least, appeared to have read it: a
The Future Has Already Happened
Joshua Clovers Theorie des Aufstands ist der eindrucksvolle Versuch einer marxistischen Erklärung der politischen und sozio-ökonomischen Bedingungen, die immer wieder zu Kämpfen führen, wobei von vornherein zu bedenken ist, dass sie nur die voll entwickelten Industrienationen berücksichtigt, im besonderen die
Joshua Clovers “Riot.Strike.Riot”: Theorie und Praxis der kollektiven Aktion
§3 We all know the popular argument about anthropology being a perverse theater where the Other is always ‘represented’ or ‘invented’ according to the sordid interests of the West. Nothing can camouflage the paternalism of this thesis, as it simply
…THE OTHER: A RELIC OF RECOGNITION PAST
Some might want to dismiss The Coming Insurrection as a vulgar or extreme interpretation of Foucault, warped for highly politicized purposes. This paper challenges that position. In particular, through clarifying the theoretical influences of The Coming Insurrection, I challenge the current reception
Insurrectionary Foucault: Tiqqun, The Coming Insurrection, and Beyond
This is a brief excerpt from the introduction to Hostis Issue 1. A PDF of the full issue can be found here THE PROBLEM with the social is not that it fails at its intended goals. There is no use
A Short Introduction to the Politics of Cruelty
Communisation is not a prophecy. It is not the declaration of some future or other. Communisation is nothing but a certain perspective on the class struggles taking place right now. The task is to conceive, starting from those struggles but
Communist Measures: thinking a Communist Horizon
The following is a preview article from the forthcoming first issue of the Chuang journal. Denim and its Discontents The story is now familiar: One morning in the spring of 2011, a migrant street vendor is harassed and beaten by
No Way Forward, No Way Back: China in the Era of Riots