[Minorcompositions] Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life

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*Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of 
Life*
Bruno Gullì & Richard Gilman-Opalsky

“To be communist is to be lost, looking for an answer, looking for a way 
out. Communist Ontologies is an explicit dialogue between Bruno Gullì 
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… A 
stroll by two communists, immensely rewarding, immensely subversive.” – 
John Holloway, from the Preface

With all appropriate modesties and heresies, Bruno Gullì and Richard 
Gilman-Opalsky think together in the ways of other kindred spirits like 
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, bell hooks and Cornel West, Michael 
Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Stefano Harney and Fred Moten. Gullì 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’s 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, Gullì 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.

*Bio:* 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 
Imaginary Power, Real Horizons, The Communism of Love, Specters of 
Revolt, and Precarious Communism. His work has been translated and 
published in Greek, Spanish, French, and German.

Bruno Gullì teaches philosophy at Cuny-Kingsborough. He is the author of 
various articles and four books in the field of political ontology, 
including Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and 
Culture (2005) and Singularities at the Threshold: The Ontology of 
Unrest (2020).

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Release to the book trade 30 November 2024

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