Double Binds of Neoliberalism - Theory and Culture After 1968

An interdisciplinary examination of the legacies of the global 1968 uprisings from the vantage point of the current crisis of neoliberal hegemony.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Revolution Today
Guillaume Collett

PART I: 1968 AND MARXISM
2 Communism as the Riddle Posed to History
Jose Rosales
3 Workers and Capitalists: Two Different Worlds? Immanence
and Antagonism in Marx's Capital
Daniel Fraser
4 The Unfulfilled Promises of the Italian 1968 Protest Movement
Franco Manni

PART II: FREEDOM AND RIGHTS
5 On Ludic Servitude
Natasha Lushetich
6 Contrasting Legacies of '68: Deleuze and Human Rights
Christos Marneros
7 '68 and Sexuality: Disentangling the Double Bind
Blanche Plaquevent

PART III: COLLECTIVE PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS
8 Two Kinds of Critical Pragmatism 161
Iain MacKenzie
9 May '68: An Institutional Event
Gabriela Hernández De La Fuente
10 Communist Guilt, Public Happiness and the Feelings of Collective Attachment
aylon cohen
11 Community, Theatre and Political Labour: Unworking the
Socialist Legacy of 1968
Ben Dunn

Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Guillaume Collett is an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent and currently based in the University of Malta. He is the author of The Psychoanalysis of Sense: Deleuze and the Lacanian School (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and the editor of Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has edited two special issues and previously co-edited the journal La Deleuziana. Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is a visiting senior lecturer in English at the University of Malta, a research fellow at the University of Kent, and a research assistant in refugee law with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Giappone has published in the areas of digital games, critical theory, and the history of subcultures and is coeditor of Comedy and Critical Thought (Rowman and Littlefield International 2018).Denisse Vásquez-Guevara is assistant professor in the communication department at Cal Poly Pomona, and associate professor in the School of Communication and Department of Biosciences at the University of Cuenca.

Summary

This interdisciplinary collection reassesses the impact of the protests of 1968, as viewed from this contemporary moment.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Mackenzie
• Assisted by: Guillaume Collett (Editor), Collett Guillaume (Editor), Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (Editor), Iain Mackenzie (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781538154526
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5452-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Experiments/On the Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Colonialism & imperialism, Critical Theory, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Political Economy, Politics and government, Anarchism