Vacuoles of Noncommunication: Minor Politics, Communist Style and the Multitude

Thoburn, Nicholas; Buchanan, Ian; Parr, Adelaide

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“…helping out in local community events) to the spectacular (e.g. antiglobalization demonstrations) are simply collapsed into one all-embracing notion: 'multitude' (see also Buchanan, 2003;Colás, 2003;Saccarelli, 2004;Thoburn, 2006).…”

Section: The Event Of Strugglementioning

confidence: 98%

Postmodern Left-Liberalism: Hardt and Negri and the Disavowal of Critique

Cremin

Roberts

2011

Critical Sociology

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In this article we set out to critique what we term the politics of left-liberalism. Broadly speaking, we situate left-liberalism around four principles. First, left-liberalism rejects Marx's labour theory of value. Second, left-liberalism believes that capitalism is inherently antagonistic. Third, leftliberalism develops a notion of resistance to the antagonistic nature of global capitalism through a politics of cultural difference. Fourth, left-liberalism often believes that global capitalism is now constituted through a type of informational post-industrialism. We develop these points through a critique of Hardt and Negri, who we believe articulate a postmodern version of left-liberalism. We highlight problems in Hardt and Negri's rejection of Marxist value theory and their notion of singular events. We then set out an alternative notion of the event through the work of Badiou and Deleuze and Guattari, which is then applied to make some wider critical observations on left-liberal politics.

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Section: The Event Of Strugglementioning

confidence: 98%

Postmodern Left-Liberalism: Hardt and Negri and the Disavowal of Critique

Cremin

Roberts

2011

Critical Sociology

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“…Beyond its potential for literary inquiry (Sunderland 2011) or cultural studies (Behdad 2005; Bignall and Patton 2010), the concept of minor literature has been enrolled in various fields of inquiry. Some of its most visible manifestations are found in critical geography (Katz 1996;Bradshaw and Williams 1999;Gerlach 2014Gerlach , 2015, education theory and pedagogy (Gregoriou 2004;Gale 2016), politics (Thoburn 2006;Van Wezemael 2008) and the study of movement (Manning 2016), to name but a few.…”

Section: Defining Minor Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access

Aroles

2018

Culture and Organization

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This paper aims to explore the insight that can be brought by Deleuze and Guattari's concept of minor literature with regards to questions of field access within the context of organizational ethnography. This paper draws from an ethnographic account of scientists negotiating access during a field expedition to Fiji. While the scientists could secure access prior to their departure by abiding by the legal dimension of plant collecting in the field, they had to renegotiate access in the field by engaging with different epistemologies, codes and forms of relationality. Positioned as an ethnography of field access, this paper highlights the enmeshment of codes, practices and trajectories in the negotiation of field access and seeks to set the lines of a 'minor politics of access' within the context of organizational ethnography.

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“…This minor process of becoming, of intensive reworking and productive mutation, connects with much longer traditions of refusal, exodus and escape: it is the tunnel burrowed through by a discontinuous but intensive non-tradition of mutant workers and migrants, one that connects maroons and hidden enclaves with the desires for exodus from the factory and the cubicle (Thoburn, 2006). As a process of creative subtraction from the dynamics of capitalist valorization and the workings of governance, it draws thins tenuous lines from those who have 'gone to Croatan' (Koehline and Sakolsky, 1994;Wilson, 2003) in the colonial area (as an era of extensive expansion and imperial conquest) with those who while 'reclaiming the streets' bring back reworked notions of otherness and indigeneity into the heart of metropolis (in an era of intensive domination and endocolonization), whether as metropolitan Indians or dancing-fi ends-come political activists.…”

Section: The Politics Of Minor Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dancing Amidst the Flames: Imagination and Self-Organization in a Minor Key

Shukaitis

2008

Organization

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Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's (1986) formulation of the concept of a 'minor literature' and Nick Thoburn's extension of this into a 'minor politics ' (2003a) this paper examines the relation between the workings of the imagination and forms of self-organization found within anticapitalist organizing of the Industrial Workers of the World and related movements. This paper explores the modulations of the social imaginary found within these particular examples as indicative of a more general process of minor composition. Rather than affi rming an already existing and known subjective position (of the people, the workers), it will be argued that rather such campaigns have playfully and strategically redirected and appropriated the social energies found within pop culture to articulate their demands.

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Vacuoles of Noncommunication: Minor Politics, Communist Style and the Multitude

Cited by 6 publications

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Postmodern Left-Liberalism: Hardt and Negri and the Disavowal of Critique

Postmodern Left-Liberalism: Hardt and Negri and the Disavowal of Critique

Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access

Dancing Amidst the Flames: Imagination and Self-Organization in a Minor Key

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