The Revolutions of Capitalism : The Politics of the Event

Lazzarato, Maurizio/ Whitener, Brian (TRN)/ Maher, Geo (TRN)

Duke University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781478038597

Full Description

Framed by brilliant readings of Gilles Deleuze and FÉlix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurizio Lazzarato's Revolutions of Capitalism charts a new theory of contemporary capitalism and the politics against it. Originally published in French in 2004, this newly translated work sees capitalism as driven, not only by labor or value, but by the capture of cooperation and by the taming of possibles. Lazzarato theorizes how contemporary capitalism depends on noo-politics, or the "action of brains at a distance on other brains," which seeks to control memory and attention and to trap the proliferation of possibles. Against this, Lazzarato reveals how current social movements attack established institutions and their vision of a single possible world to liberate the creation and actualization of a multiplicity of possible worlds.

Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Brian Whitener 1
1. The Event and Politics
2. The Concepts of Life and the Living of Societies of Control
3. The Corporation and Neomonadology
4. Expression Versus Communication
5. Resistance and Creation in Postsocialist Movements
Notes
Bibliography
Index