Communicative Capitalism and Revolutionary Form

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ID11922067
AuthorsJodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume47
Issue3
Pages326-340
Publication date2019-04-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMillennium Journal of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-8298 • E-ISSN: 1477-9021
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0305829819840624
OpenAlexW2939341612
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This essay considers the political form that is presupposed in questions of resistance and revolution. It situates resistance and revolution in communicative capitalism, a setting characterised by intense winner-take-all inequality, the decline of symbolic efficiency, and the shift from the use to the circulation value of communicative utterances. It draws out the way that this setting inflects the body the question of resistance and revolution presupposes. Is it the world, the individual, the network, or the party? I argue that the party is the form we need to assume when we ask about revolution because it is the party that has the capacity to strategise, to plan and to arrange itself with an eye to revolution. Capitalismo comunicativo y forma revolucionaria

Capitalism · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Inequality · Plan (archaeology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies · Engineering · History · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political Economy and Marxism

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