What in the hell …

He’s ambiguous at best, these days. I’d love it if someone who really knew Lenin and the Leninist tradition(s) - preferably someone critical but I’d settle for a smart vanguardist - could interview him and ask. (more…)

Angela has suggested a conversation comparing some of the different threads/versions of refusal passing through some conversations recently. The initial point of departure is Tronti’s Strategy of the Refusal, perhaps it can be something like the Long Sunday symposium on the Critique of Violence of recent memory. (Jodi and I have plans already to read this piece anyway, and some Lenin, in order to keep the ball rolling on the conversations about solidarity. Tronti and Lenin will go well together as at least back in the day Tronti was a Leninist, of sorts, and the Lenin will also compliment the Mao reading that a couple of us have been trying to do. No shortage of ways to spend my time! Too bad there’s the need to work instead. Anyway…) The Tronti’d be quite interesting to do en masse, and not an inappropriate follow on, as Tronti engages with Benjamin, and with Schmitt, in his more recent work. Hopefully Brett will say a few words on that for those of us che non leggiamo Italiano molto bene. Sono molto excited at the idea of all this. E’ bello. Hope others are too.

There’s a discussion on at the Valve, and it’s come up at I Cite as well, on Lenin et al. (more…)

I’ve been reading Badiou’s Paul book (more…)