Commentary symposium: return to keynes?
No New Deal Is Possible
antonio negri ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2
Keynesianism Constrained
Jim tomlinson ……………………………………………………………………………………. 6
The Politics of the Long Run
yutaka nagahara ……………………………………………………………………………… 10artiCleS
The Will of the People: Notes Towards a Dialectical Voluntarism
peter Hallward …………………………………………………………………………………. 17
After Life: De Anima and Unhuman Politics
eugene thacker ………………………………………………………………………………… 31
The Jargon of Finitude: Or, Materialism Today
Bruno Bosteels …………………………………………………………………………………. 41reviewS
Patrick Barret , Daniel Chavez and César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds, The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn
Jon Beasley-murray ………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Dayan Jayatil eka, Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: The Moral Dimension of the Political Thought of Fidel Castro
nathan Coombs ……………………………………………………………………………….. 51
Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy
Jean-Jacques lecercle ……………………………………………………………………… 53
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism
alessandra tanesini ………………………………………………………………………….. 56
Colin Milburn, Nanovision: Engineering the Future
nathan Brown………………………………………………………………………………….. 57
Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy
tom eyers ………………………………………………………………………………………… 60newS
University Occupations over Gaza
mona Baker ……………………………………………………………………………………… 62ConferenCe report
Celebrity Come Communism: ‘On the Idea of Communism’, 13–15 March 2009
matthew Charles …………………………………………………………………………….. 64
Gender Trouble at the Birkbeck Boys’ Institute for the Humanities
mH …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 64ContentS155
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Contributors antonio negri
’s books include 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).
Jim tomlinson
is Bonar Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee. His most recent book is The Wilson Governments 1964–1970, vol. III: Economic Policy (2004).
Yutaka nagahara
is a Professor of Japanese Economic History at Hosei University, where he also teaches Marxian theory and French philosophies. He is the translator of numerous works into Japanese, including books by Žižek and Badiou.
Peter hal ward
teaches in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy,
Middlesex University. His most recent books are Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment (Verso, 2007) and Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (Verso, 2006).
Eugene thacker
is Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and coauthor of The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Bruno bosteels
is Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Cornel University. He is the author of two forthcoming books, Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press) and Marx and Freud in Latin America (Columbia University Press).