Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Political History and the Diagnostic of Revolutionary Praxis
- 2 Intervention and the Future Anterior
- 3 The Body Politic and the Process of Participation
- 4 Political Affinity and Singular-Universal Solidarity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Political History and the Diagnostic of Revolutionary Praxis
- 2 Intervention and the Future Anterior
- 3 The Body Politic and the Process of Participation
- 4 Political Affinity and Singular-Universal Solidarity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The year 2011 was one of incredible, worldwide revolutionary activity. Shortly after the completion of this book the largest global occupation movement in history crystallised in October 2011. This occupation movement is the practical and theoretical heir to the political strategies developed by Deleuze, Guattari and the Zapatistas as articulated in the chapters of this book. Inspired by the Arab Spring, the occupations in Wisconsin, the riots against austerity measures in Europe and the UK, and the occupations by the Spanish indignados and the Greeks at Syntagma Square, the Occupy movement has spread to over 2,556 cities across eighty-two countries, and over 600 communities in the United States (Occupy Together 2011). The Occupy movement is based on the popular outrage at the growing disparity of wealth and power between individuals and corporations, as well as the failure of political representatives to resolve the problems of increasing unemployment, housing foreclosures, paralysing student debt and the aggressive defunding of social services. But, as some theorists have correctly remarked, the Occupy movement is demonstrably more than a mere protest against greedy bankers and corrupt politicians: it is a sustained movement that is responding to the problems of global capitalism and the institution of political representation itself (Hardt and Negri 2011; Žižek 2011; Graeber 2011).
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- Returning to RevolutionDeleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, pp. viii - xiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2012