Revolutions of Capitalism : The Politics of the Event.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazzarato, Maurizio.

Standardized Title:

Revolutions du capitalisme. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Lazzarato, Maurizio.

Political science.

Social movements.

Local Subjects:

Lazzarato, Maurizio.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Following in the intellectual tradition of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, among others, Maurizio Lazzarato's The Revolutions of Capitalism charts the specific and changing conditions of twenty-first century neoliberal capitalism and the strategies needed to oppose or alter them. Originally published in French in 2004, this newly translated work attempts to define a radical political, social, and ontological theory around questions of multiplicity, singularity, and the event-key concepts that Lazzarato argues we must contend with so that other worlds may be possible. Lazzarato attends to capitalism's increasing focus on the production, capital, and accumulation of immaterial goods and services, such as skills, knowledge, ways of life, moods, feelings, and atmospheres, and he argues this change necessitates a shift in how we think about processes of becoming. For Lazzarato, politics is an event that brings with it a 'field of possibles' that is at once multiple, singular, radically open, and becoming actual. Drawing heavily on the work of nineteenth-century French sociologist Gabriel Tarde, Lazzarato proposes an open pluralist ontology and a 'politics of multiplicity,' marking a deviation from the closed 'politics of totality' found in traditional Marxist thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Brian Whitener

The Event and Politics

The Concepts of Life and the Living in Societies of Control

The Corporation and Neo-Monadology

Expression Versus Communication

Resistance and Creation in Post-Socialist Movements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4780-6221-5

9781478062219

OCLC:

1579756294