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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 3 Communism
Actually</b></p>
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In this episode of the Minor Compositions, we discuss <a
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href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1320">Communist
Ontologies</a> with its authors Richard Gilman-Opalsky and Bruno
Gulli, exploring their proposal that communism be understood not
only as a political program but as a form of life. The
conversation ranges across questions of political economy,
ontology, and revolutionary subjectivity, considering how Marx’s
critique of capitalism points toward the recovery of ways of
living beyond the reduction of life to labor. Along the way we
discuss the historical contingency of revolutionary subjects,
drawing on figures such as Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon, as
well as movements like the Zapatista Army of National Liberation,
to think through how identities and forms of struggle emerge,
transform, and sometimes dissolve. The discussion also reflects on
the philosophical tension between being and becoming, the limits
imposed by carceral systems, and the possibilities opened by
imagining new forms of collective life – finding, in the spirit of
W. E. B. Du Bois – that the struggle for freedom often begins in
small practices of interdependence, imagination, and other ways of
doing beyond the logics of capital.<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 <i>Imaginary Power, Real Horizons</i>, <i>The
Communism of Love</i>, <i>Specters of Revolt</i>, and <i>Precarious
Communism</i>. 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 <i>Labor of Fire: The Ontology of
Labor between Economy and Culture</i> (2005) and <i>Singularities
at the Threshold: The Ontology of Unrest</i> (2020).<br>
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Intro / outdo music: Wukir Suryadi, playing the Minotaur of Titir<br>
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Image: Judgment of Midas, Unknown Flemish artist, imitator of
Hendrik van Balen, late 16th century, via Hermitage Museum; King
Midas, Andrea Vaccaro, 1670, via Dorotheum<br>
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