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Networking the Multitude
Linda C Brigham complicates Hardt and Negri's case for network resistance.
Empire and the Commons
Caren Irr reframes the question of private property through fantastic narratives of the commons.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Irreducible Innovation
William Smith Wilson injects the transcendentals of aesthetic illusions into Hardt and Negri's immanent materialism.
‘Is it Possible Not to Love Žižek?’ on Slavoj Žižek’s Missed Encounter with Deleuze
Hanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.
Putting the Brakes on the Žižek Machine
Eric Dean Rasmussen traces the contours of Hanjo Berressem's rigorous, bi-tempo reading of Organs without Bodies, which finds Žižek's philosophical buggering of Deleuze to be wanting.
What Would Žižek Do? Redeeming Christianity’s Perverse Core
Jokes play a fundamental role in Slavoj Žižek's philosophizing. Is Žižek joking when he extols the virtues of Christianity to the Left? Eric Dean Rasmussen analyzes Žižek's pro-Christian proselytizing as attacks on modes of PC-ness - political correctness and perverse Christianity - that sustain an undesirable neoliberalism.
The Machinic Multitude
Nick Spencer argues that the multitude is machinic, even without machines.
Sandy Baldwin’s response to Lori Emerson
Sandy Baldwin responds to Lori Emerson.
Chris Stroffolino’s response to Lori Emerson
Chris Stroffolino responds to Lori Emerson
On Materialities, Meanings, and The Shape of Things
Lori Emerson reviews The Shape of the Signifier by Walter Benn Michaels.