Politics of the Many: Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Carson; Benjamin Halligan; Alexei Penzin; Stefano Pippa (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the turn of the millennium, protest movements and strategies have multiplied and diversified; old models of organization involving spokespeople, grand gestures and lobbying, have given way to new approaches. Protests in the 21st century are arranged around collectives as centreless, leaderless, amorphous assemblages.
This tendency towards proliferation has been theorized through the concept of multitude, most famously put forward by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, which conceptualized a new proletariat for the age of globalization. The idea of multitude primarily sought to revisit and re-energize micro-models of protest, such as radical feminist movements, wildcat strikes, refugee and sex worker rights, hacktivism and reclaiming the streets, squatting and “dropping out”, the “temporary autonomous zone” and occupy. Politics of the Many problematizes the concept of multitude, taking in the substantial criticisms produced in previous decades, and the concept’s testing in the many global upheavals of the last decade, in order to interrogate the ways in which politics and ideology persist in the current moment.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Tarrying with the Many:
Against the Few, Beyond the One
Rebecca Carson, Benjamin Halligan, Alexei Penzin and Stefano Pippa
Part I The One, The Many And The Multitude
Chapter 1
Bonds and Dispersion: Prometheus Dividual Gerald Raunig
Chapter 2
The Centaur and the Multitude: From Machiavelli to
Contemporary Italian Political Thought
Dario Gentili
Chapter 3
Flipping Your Schmitt: Human Nature and the
Democracy of the Multitude
Paul Mazzocchi
Chapter 4
Unbuild the Party: Multitude and Autonomia
Luhuna Carvalho
Part II
Towards A Politics Of The Many
Chapter 5
Crowds and Publics
Jodi Dean
Chapter 6
Class Composition and the (Non)emergence of the Multitude
Stevphen Shukaitis
Chapter 7
Multitude Void: The Regal Mode of Imperial Legitimation
Benjamin Halligan
Chapter 8
The Gilets Jaunes as Unintentional Vanguard
Marc James Léger
Part III
The Many Under Capital
Chapter 9
The Necropolitics of Reproduction: Black Feminism,
Mothers and the Death Drive
Carina Brand
Chapter 10
Insomnia@work: Between Neo-workerism and Psychoanalysis
Lorenzo Chiesa
Chapter 11
The Marxism of Post-Marxism: Political Subjectivity and the
Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic
Rebecca Carson
Chapter 12
‘Il Faut Continuer’: Always-on Capitalism and Subjectivity
Alexei Penzin
Index