COMMENTARY Looking Back on ’68
Managing the Present
Kristin Ross ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 2
Mexico 1968: The Revolution of Shame
Bruno Bosteels …………………………………………………………………………………… 5
‘Liberate socialist eminences from their bourgeois cocks!’ Women ‘68ers, Marching On Alone
Lynne Segal ……………………………………………………………………………………… 12DOSSiER Art and immaterial Labour
Introduction
…………………………………………………………………………………….. 17
A Very Different Context
Éric Alliez …………………………………………………………………………………………. 18
Metamorphoses
Antonio Negri ………………………………………………………………………………….. 21
Art, Work and Politics in Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Security
Maurizio Lazzarato …………………………………………………………………………… 26
The Materiality of the Immaterial: Foucault, against the Return of Idealisms and New Vitalisms
Judith Revel …………………………………………………………………………………….. 33
(T)error and Poetry
Franco Berardi ………………………………………………………………………………….. 39REviEwS
Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought
Knox Peden ……………………………………………………………………………………… 46
Alain Badiou, De Quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? Circonstances 4
Peter Hallward …………………………………………………………………………………. 50
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Robert Spencer ……………………………………………………………………………….. 52
John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade
Steve Edwards ………………………………………………………………………………… 56
Matthew Beaumont, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie and John Roberts, eds, As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st CenturyAndrew Hemingway, ed., Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left
Gail Day …………………………………………………………………………………………… 59
Joanna Hodge, Derrida on Time
Jean-Paul Martinon ………………………………………………………………………….. 62CONTENTS149
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Contributors kristin ross
is the author of May ’68 and Its Afterlives (2002), which has also appeared in French and Spanish. Her first book, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988), was reissued this year by Verso.
Bruno bosteels
teaches Latin American literature and critical theory at Cornell University. His Badiou o el recomienzo del materialismo dialéctico was published in 2007.
Lynne segal
is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, London.
Her most recent book is Making Trouble: Life and Politics (2007).
Antonio negri
is the author of The Politics of Subversion (1989; 2005), Insurgencies (1992; trans. 1999), Time for Revolution (2003), and, with Michael Hardt, Labour of Dionysus (1994), Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004).
Maurizio lazzarato
is an independent sociologist and philosopher who lives and works in Paris. A regular contributor to Futur Antérior, he was one of the founders of the journal Multitudes.
Judith revel
teaches at the University of Paris I. Her books include Foucault: Un’ontologia dell’attualità (2003), Foucault: Expériences de la pensée (2005) and Dictionnaire Foucault (2007).
Franco berardi
teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975–81), he was on the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976–78). His books include Felix (2001) and Skizomedia (2006).
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