{"id":1320,"date":"2024-06-08T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:59:52","slug":"communist-ontologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Communist Ontologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life<br \/>\n<\/strong>Bruno Gull\u00ec &amp; Richard Gilman-Opalsky<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo be communist is to be lost, looking for an answer, looking for a way out. <em>Communist Ontologies<\/em> is an explicit dialogue between Bruno Gull\u00ec and Richard Gilman-Opalsky. The book breaks with the monologue form, brings us away too from any monological concept of anti-capitalist politics. It is extraordinarily rich and extraordinarily enriching\u2026 A stroll by two communists, immensely rewarding, immensely subversive.\u201d \u2013 John Holloway, from the Preface<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With all appropriate modesties and heresies, Bruno Gull\u00ec and Richard Gilman-Opalsky think together in the ways of other kindred spirits like Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari, bell hooks and Cornel West, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Stefano Harney and Fred Moten. Gull\u00ec and Gilman-Opalsky undertake a philosophical and political inquiry into capitalist forms of life and communist ontologies. From a deep, dialectical study of each other\u2019s work, they aim at a new synthesis of theory about possible and desirable beings-in-the-world. Rejecting capitalist conceptions of labor, politics, sovereignty, economy, (neo)liberalism, community, the individual, art, revolution, social change, and even the human person, Gull\u00ec and Gilman-Opalsky propose new ways of thinking and being antagonistic to the existing world (such as it is). They consider the prospects for new forms of life realized by way of the emancipatory dreams and struggles of everyday people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Richard Gilman-Opalsky is professor of political theory and philosophy in the School of Politics and International Affairs at the University of Illinois. He is the author of eight books, including <em>Imaginary Power, Real Horizons,<\/em>\u00a0<em>The Communism of Love<\/em>, <em>Specters of Revolt<\/em>, and <em>Precarious Communism<\/em>. His work has been translated and published in Greek, Spanish, French, and German.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bruno Gull\u00ec teaches philosophy at Cuny-Kingsborough. He is the author of various articles and four books in the field of political ontology, including <em>Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture<\/em> (2005) and <em>Singularities at the Threshold: The Ontology of Unrest<\/em> (2020).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-D2AVNTPHGUC8C\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"D2AVNTPHGUC8C\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-D2AVNTPHGUC8C\")\n<\/script><br \/>\nAvailable direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/communistontologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-1322\">Communist Ontologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>244 pages, 6 x 9, paperback<br \/>\nUK: \u00a320\/ US: $25<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-451-0<\/p>\n<p>Release to the book trade 30 November 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life Bruno Gull\u00ec &amp; Richard Gilman-Opalsky \u201cTo be communist is to be lost, looking for an answer, looking for a way out. Communist Ontologies is an explicit dialogue between Bruno Gull\u00ec and Richard Gilman-Opalsky. 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