This new reading of Gilles Deleuze by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee forges a link between his early and later works by decoding his hidden agenda for communism. Encoded in the idea of ‘the Third World’, Deleuze used his concept of communism as a bulwark against fascist politics and the liberal political economy. Inspired by May 68 …
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Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric reviewed by Gorica Orsholits
Freud, Burke, Lacan, and philosophy’s other scenes by Daniel Adleman and Chris Vanderwees Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric is a collaborative work emerging from several years of conversations between Adleman – a rhetorician – and Vanderwees – a psychoanalyst. Their dialogue represents a thoughtful fusion of psychoanalytic practice and theory with new rhetoric, rather effectively …
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In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities – Jean Baudrillard
The Philosophy of Parochialism
By Radomir Konstantinovic; originally published as Filosofija Palanke Edited and with an Introduction by Branislav Jakovljevic, Translation by Ljiljana Nikolic and Branislav Jakovljevic and available for the first time in English in 2021 The Philosophy of Parochialism is Radomir Konstantinović’s (1928–2011) most celebrated and reviled book, first published in Belgrade as Filosofija palanke in 1969. …
Songs We Sang Before the Future
In summer 1962, the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students took place in Helsinki, bringing together more than fifteen thousand people from all around the world engaged with the struggle for peace and in solidarity with global liberation movements. Openly aligning with the socialist bloc, the festival happened during the most antagonistic period of …
Literature and Materialisms
By Frédéric Neyrat, published by Routledge From a new materialist perspective, literature is never mute but always a part of the voice of the world, its physicality impresses our memory and sculpts our emotions. For a materialist thinker, the moment of collapse is always a moment of immanence, that is to say the attack and …
Old ideas, new illustrations – on the common dream
The Communist Manifesto(Nordica libros)By Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsIllustrated by Fernando VicenteTranslated by Jacobo Muñoz For a new Spanish edition of The Communist Manifesto, Madrid-based artist Fernando Vicente created a series of striking, chromatically appropriate black-white-and-red illustrations that capture the message and sensibility of the Marx and Engels classic work. One of the most important …
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Transition to Nowhere
Art in History after 1989 Chapter I: The Condition Called Post-Communism The post-communist condition is often associated with post-politics: general consensus upon the only remaining path of history agreed beyond any ideological differences. It implies one essential feature, an all-encompassing notion of culture,or more precisely, the ability of culture to translate all conflicts into its …
Sick Planet
A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have generated the destruction of the natural environment are mutually self-reinforcing because they share a common root: they have a common mode of existence …