[Minorcompositions] 14/7 Communism After Deleuze

[Minor Compositions]

*Communism After Deleuze <https://www.facebook.com/events/711565451587541>*
July 14th @ 12PM UK Time, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/94264772315>

/Event 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 session uncovers a hidden itinerary running through Deleuze’s early 
and late works:  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.

Organized by Minor Compositions & COVER

This event will be edited into an episode of the Minor Compositions podcast.
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