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Crowds and Party

by Jodi Dean
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How do mass protests become an organized activist collective?
Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the state—such as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the world—they create a gap of possibility. But too many on the Left remain stuck in this beautiful moment of promise—they argue for more of the same, further fragmenting issues and identities, rehearsing the last thirty years of left-wing defeat. In Crowds and Party, Dean argues that previous discussions of the party have missed its affective dimensions, the way it operates as a knot of unconscious processes and binds people together. Dean shows how we can see the party as an organization that can reinvigorate political practice.
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Publisher: Verso Books

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  • Release date: August 9, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781781686720
  • File size: 545 KB
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  • ISBN: 9781781686720
  • File size: 545 KB
  • Release date: August 9, 2016

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Politics Nonfiction

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How do mass protests become an organized activist collective?
Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the state—such as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the world—they create a gap of possibility. But too many on the Left remain stuck in this beautiful moment of promise—they argue for more of the same, further fragmenting issues and identities, rehearsing the last thirty years of left-wing defeat. In Crowds and Party, Dean argues that previous discussions of the party have missed its affective dimensions, the way it operates as a knot of unconscious processes and binds people together. Dean shows how we can see the party as an organization that can reinvigorate political practice.
Expand title description text
Politics Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Verso Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: August 9, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781781686720
    File size: 545 KB
    Release date: August 9, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781781686720
    File size: 545 KB
    Release date: August 9, 2016

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
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  • Languages
    English