Benjamin Halligan - Politics of the Many: Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency

POLITICS OF THE MANY

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POLITICS OF THE MANY

Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency

Edited by
Rebecca Carson, Benjamin Halligan, Alexei Penzin and Stefano Pippa

Carina Brand is Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Contextual Studies at De Montfort University, where she researches interdisciplinary Marxist and Feminist readings of art and culture. Her chapter Feeding Like A Parasite: Extraction and Science Fiction in Capitalist Dystopia appeared in Economic Science Fictions (2018). Her current research explores the relationships between the rise of capitalism, gender and the unconscious. A monograph on the work of Stuart Brisley is forthcoming.

Rebecca Carson is Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London, where she researches Marx and Philosophy. Her chapter Money as Money: Suzanne de Brunhoffs Marxist Monetary Theory appeared in Marx Inattuale, Edizioni Efesto (2019) and her article Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination in Continental Thought & Theory (2017). Her current research looks at Marxs philosophical use of the term life in relation to Hegelian philosophy, in order to understand differentiated forms of subjection within the expanded reproduction of capital.

Luhuna Carvalho received his PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University in 2021. Carvalhos research proposes a new interpretation of the Italian social movements Operaismo and Autonomia. His chapter Rude Life will appear in the forthcoming La Rivoluzione in Esilio. Scritti su Mario Tronti (Quodlibet, 2021).

Lorenzo Chiesa is Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University. He was previously Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent, where he founded and directed the Centre for Critical Thought. His books include: The Not-Two (2016); The Virtual Point of Freedom (2016); Italian Thought Today (2014); Lacan and Philosophy (2014); The Italian Difference (2009, with Alberto Toscano) and Subjectivity and Otherness (2007). His works have been translated into numerous languages.

Jodi Dean teaches Political Theory in upstate New York. She is the author or editor of thirteen books, including: Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging (2019); Crowds and Party (2016); The Communist Horizon (2012); Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive (2010) and Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (2009). With Paul A. Passvant she co-edited Empires New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (2003).

Dario Gentili is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University (Italy). His monographs include: Il tempo della storia. Le tesi Sul concetto di storia di Walter Benjamin (2002, 2019); Italian Theory. Dalloperaismo alla biopolitica (2012); Topografie politiche. Spazio urbano, cittadinanza, confini in Walter Benjamin e Jacques Derrida (2009) and The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis As an Art of Government (2021). He has co-edited (with Elettra Stimilli and Glenda Garelli) Italian Critical Thought: Genealogies and Categories (2018).

Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton. His publications include Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film (2016) and Michael Reeves (2003) and the co-edited collections: Stories We Could Tell: Putting Words to American Popular Music, by David Sanjek (2018); The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (2015); The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013); Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music (2013); Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (2012) and Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music, Politics (2010). The monograph Hotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society and the co-edited collection Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop are forthcoming.

Marc James Lger is an independent scholar based in Montral. He is editor of several books, including The Idea of the Avant Garde And What It Means Today, Volumes 1 & 2 (2014, 2019) and Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas (co-edited with David Tomas, 2016), as well as author of Brave New Avant Garde (2012), Drive in Cinema (2015), Dont Network: The Avant Garde after Networks (2018) and Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory (2019).

Paul Mazzocchi is Adjunct Instructor at York University (Toronto, Canada). He is the co-editor of Thinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Postwar France. His work has appeared in Utopian Studies, Theory & Event, Constellations and Critical Horizons. His current research explores democracy and utopia in the work of Miguel Abensour.

Alexei Penzin is Reader in Philosophy and Art Theory at the University of Wolverhampton, and Associated Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Rethinking Marxism, Mediations, South Atlantic Quarterly, Crisis and Critique, e-flux, as well as in many edited collections. His essay Rex Exsomnis was part of the dOCUMENTA13 series (2012). Penzin edited and authored an afterword for the Russian translation of The Grammar of Multitude by Paolo Virno (2013), and co-edited the English translation of the book Art and Production by Boris Arvatov, one of the key theorists of the Soviet Avant-garde (2017). He is one of the founding members of the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?), an internationally recognized collective of artists, writers and academics. Penzin is also a member of editorial boards of the journal Stasis (Saint-Petersburg) and the Moscow Art Magazine. Currently, he is preparing a monograph on sleep and capitalist modernity for Bloomsbury Academic.

Stefano Pippa is Research Fellow in Political Philosophy at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He received his PhD in 2016 from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University, UK. His research interests focus on the thought of Louis Althusser, post-Althusserianism, and contemporary critical theory. He has published articles in journals such as Radical Philosophy, Rethinking Marxism and Stasis, and his monograph Althusser and Contingency was published in 2019.

Gerald Raunig works at the Zurich University of the Arts as Professor of Philosophy, and at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp), where he is one of the editors of the multilingual publishing platform transversal texts (transversal.at). His books have been translated into English, Serbian, Spanish, Slovenian, Russian, Italian, Dutch and Turkish. Publications include: