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<p>Now available for ordering and/or free download…<br>
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<b>Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New
Forms of Life</b><br>
Bruno Gullì & Richard Gilman-Opalsky<br>
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“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 <br>
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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.<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> 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.<br>
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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).<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1320">https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1320</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions
site.<br>
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Release to the book trade 30 November 2024<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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