[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 34 Communism After Deleuze

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*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 34 Communism After Deleuze
<https://youtu.be/dofKqbv9KPo>*
Communism After Deleuze

Discussion with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee about his new book /Communism After 
Deleuze./

What if communism was always the secret engine of Deleuze’s thought? 
This episode uncovers a hidden itinerary running through Deleuze’s work: 
a subterranean current where the idea of the Third World becomes a 
cipher for revolutionary desire. Against the grain of liberal economy 
and creeping fascism, Deleuze's veiled engagements with Marx – sparked 
by the upheavals of May ’68 – point toward an unfulfilled political 
project. Join us as we excavate this buried legacy and explore how these 
forgotten pathways might still resonate, agitate, and assemble today.

More on the book: “Often regarded as an apolitical philosopher, the 
challenges that Deleuze mounted to structuralism are easy to overlook. 
By reinvigorating the communist aspect of his political project and 
linking his ideas to Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek, 
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee reveals Deleuze's objective: to rescue Marxism from 
the dogmatic status quo and revive its political agendas. This major 
undertaking situates his ideas alongside and sets out a new framework 
for reading the significance of Marxist thought in postwar France. 
Ultimately, this new understanding of Deleuze's critique of global 
capitalism opens up his vision of materialistic politics as a means of 
shaping the people and the proletariat of the future.”

Bio: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School 
of Communication at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.

The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with Firefly 
Frequencies <https://fireflyfrequencies.org>.
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