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Precarious Rhapsody
Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and…
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Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday Resistance
Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday Resistance Recently, “affect” has been a key concept for research in politics, aesthetics, marketing, neuroscience, and sociology. This course seeks to draw together some of the more innovative work within this “affective turn,” focusing on the political composition of subjectivities, especially via cultural practices. After a survey of…
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Strategies of Refusal
Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism Since the publication of Hardt and Negri’s Empire new attention has been brought to a previously ignored current of revolutionary theory and practice, namely that of autonomist Marxism. The attention paid to readings of Negri have tended to neglect the vast wealth of engaged theoretical reflection contained within…
