{"product_id":"9781350105645","title":"Politics of the Many Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePolitics of the Many\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eContemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBenjamin Halligan | Alexei Penzin | Stefano Pippa | Rebecca Carson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Movements \/ Critical Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitics of the Many\u003c\/i\u003e draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many – they are few!' This idea of the Many, as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that cannot be erased for the sake of the One, is the philosophical and political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They raise questions of collective agency, and its crisis in contemporary capitalism, via new engagements with Marxist philosophy, psychoanalysis, theories of social reproduction and value-form, and post-colonial critiques, and drawing on activist thought and strategies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book interrogates both established and emergent formations of the Many (the people, classes, publics, crowds, masses, multitudes), tracing their genealogies, their recent failures and victories, and their potentials to change the world. The book proposes and explores an intense and provoking series of new or reinvented concepts, figures, and theoretical constellations, including dividuality, the centaur, unintentional vanguard, insomnia at work, always-on capitalism, multitude (from its 'voiding' to a '(non)emergence'), crowds, necropolitics, and the link between political subjectivity and value-form. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003ePolitics of the Many\u003c\/i\u003e are both acclaimed and emergent thinkers including Carina Brand, Rebecca Carson, Luhuna Carvalho, Lorenzo Chiesa, Jodi Dean, Dario Gentili, Benjamin Halligan, Marc James Léger, Paul Mazzocchi, Alexei Penzin, Stefano Pippa, Gerald Raunig, and Stevphen Shukaitis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Halligan\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexei Penzin\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Art at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefano Pippa\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Carson \u003c\/b\u003eis a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston,  University of London, UK and teaches in the Critical and Historical Studies programme at the Royal College of Art, London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 October 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350105645\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e248\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18.56\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333004165260,"sku":"9781350105645","price":121.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e0dce663-1220-4134-83ab-508016611b60.jpg?v=1783608178","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350105645","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}