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Against Joy; or, Deleuze’s Empire
Exclamation points have played a distinguished role in the history of Marxism. It helps if every other one is upside down. The exclamation point is the mark of solidarity, of commitment, the...
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Against Joy, Part 2
PART ONE IS HERE This is the moment to return to Empire and “the joy of being communist.” Nietzsche, as the sole author of The Gay Science, is something of an anomaly. All great comic acts work in...
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Against Joy, Part 3
PART ONE IS HERE PART TWO IS HERE But as ever in such matters, a philosophy, once disavowed, leaves only its worst features behind, its intellectual sludge. Let us take the tally of two important...
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Marx’s Philosophical Context
The short essay that follows is due to appear in the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx in 2018. There are four things one needs to know about Marx’s relationship to his immediate philosophical...
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