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<p><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/711565451587541">Communism
After Deleuze</a></b><br>
July 14th @ 12PM UK Time, <a
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/94264772315">online</a><br>
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<i>Event with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee about his new book Communism
After Deleuze.</i><br>
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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. <br>
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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.”<br>
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Bio: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is Professor of Cultural Studies in the
School of Communication at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South
Korea.<br>
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Organized by Minor Compositions & COVER<br>
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This event will be edited into an episode of the Minor
Compositions podcast.<br>
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