Alberto Toscano
Biographical Note
Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022). He teaches at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Communist Differend
Part 1 Alain Badiou, or, The Communist Separation
1 Communism as Separation
2 Marxism Expatriated
3 From the State to the World
4 Can Violence Be Thought?
5 The Bourgeois and the Islamist, or, The Other Subjects of Politics
1 Subjects of untruth
2 Ambivalence of the bourgeoisie
3 Justice and Terror, nihilists and renegades
4 Struggles over subjective space
5 The obscure subject of current affairs
6 Conclusion
6 Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and Against History
7 Politics in Pre-Political Times
8 A Spectre is Not Haunting Europe
1 The desire for the state
2 Imperium, or, the circle of the state
3 Thinking communism outside the state
9 Communism and the Absolute
Part 2 Toni Negri, or, The Communist Tendency
10 Chronicles of Insurrection: Operaismo and the Subject of Antagonism
1 Before Empire, behind the multitude
2 Tendency and communism
3 Tronti’s Copernican revolution
4 Fantasy wears boots
11 Factory, Territory, Metropolis, Empire
12 Always Already Only Now: Limits of the Biopolitical
1 Questions of method
2 Mediation is dead, long live biopolitics
3 The biopolitical subject of living labour
4 From biopolitics to class struggle and back again
5 Periodisation and production
6 Vitalism and social ontology
13 Art Against Empire
14 The Sensuous Religion of the Multitude: Aesthetics and Abstraction
15 Prison, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
16 A Communist Life: Toni Negri (1933–2023)
Note on Texts
Bibliography
Index