Inspired by the recent publication of Marcello Tarì’s There Is No Unhappy Revolution (Common Notions, 2021), this panel takes up the concept of ‘destituent communism.’ Drawing upon the thought of Walter Benjamin, Colectivo Situaciones, Mario Tronti, and Giorgio Agamben, this communism of destitution calls forth a radical rethinking of revolution for our time. Against the grain of a traditional orthodoxy that can only see uprisings as constituent processes, destitution offers us a perspective from which we can weigh the contemporary wave of revolts on their own terms, beyond the horizon of representation.
Idris Robinson, Richard Braude, Gerardo Muñoz, Andrés Guzmán, and Alessandra Renzi in conversation. Moderated by Erika Biddle.
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Red May is a month-long spree of red arts, red theory, and red politics based in Seattle, Washington.