{"id":48,"date":"2019-08-30T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:04:06","slug":"welcome-to-critique-13-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Revolution 13\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D63yLo5stiQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The ideas and manifestos of \u201cworldly philosophers\u201d that ignited revolutions\u2026<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">CCCCT Seminar Series 2021-2022 (7<sup>th<\/sup> edition)<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the central argument is a rousing reaffirmation of the mandate to make theory change the world for the better, which group is better qualified to make this happen: the \u201cilluminati\u201d of critical theory or activist thinkers and \u201cworldly\u201d philosophers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Biodun Jeyifo (2021)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/files\/2021\/09\/Jeyifo-An-22illuminati22-and-its-acolytes-CP-Review.pdf\">review essay<\/a> of\u00a0<em>Critique &amp; Praxis<\/em> and the broader project of these 13\/13 seminars, published recently in the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/toc\/14684446\/2021\/72\/3\"><em>British Journal of Sociology<\/em><\/a> (vol. 73, issue 3, June 2021), the literary critic and cultural theorist Biodun Jeyifo asks whether, as we chart a path forward toward critical praxis, we should turn to the writings of the more academically-inclined critical theorists or to those of more revolutionary philosopher-activists. Would we be better off reading Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, or Ho Chi Minh, Lenin, Luxemburg, and Mao? Should we privilege the \u201cworldly philosophers\u201d who actually ignited real revolutions?<\/p>\n<p>Biodun Jeyifo emphasizes that it is not productive to pose the question as if one list, one tradition, was preferable to the other. \u201cThere is no incommensurable divide between the two lists or traditions,\u201d Jeyifo underscores in correspondence. Yet turning our attention to the \u201cworldly philosophers\u201d would be beneficial because, by contrast to the academic critical philosophers, \u201cthey have not been studied enough as a historic, global and comparative phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The challenge raises a number of questions that the earlier 13\/13 seminars had posed: To begin with, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/1-13\/\">what is a revolution<\/a> and how does it differ from an uprising, riot, or insurrection? Is the very idea of revolution too closely tied to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-on-revolution\/\">the modern concept of revolution<\/a>,\u201d or alternatively, to anti-colonial wars of national liberation at mid-twentieth century? Is the metric of \u201cigniting an actual revolution\u201d too closely tied to the \u201csuccess\u201d or \u201ceffectiveness\u201d of a mass mobilization, and what do those words, \u201csuccess\u201d or \u201ceffectiveness,\u201d even mean? Are revolutionary outcomes the product of historical contingencies, of a historical conjuncture, over which philosophers themselves have little control? And how exactly do we distinguish which thinkers are more academically-inclined and which are the worldly philosophers who brought about revolution? Surely there are differences between, on the one hand, Lenin, Luxemburg, Mao, and Ho Chi Minh, and, on the other, Adorno, Arendt, Beauvoir, Foucault, Said, and Sartre. But are those differences contingent on their location in history? And do they reify particular definitions of revolution\u2014such as an armed uprising versus a transformation of our subjectivity?<\/p>\n<p>We have examined and addressed all these challenges in the 13\/13 seminars, and yet\u2026 as Biodun Jeyifo rightly insists, there is a difference between returning to Sartre and Foucault, or instead turning to Fidel Castro and Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n<p>The 13\/13 project has tried to give primacy neither to theory, nor to praxis, but instead to constantly confront and clash theory and praxis on the model of a large particle collider. And we have, over the years, dedicated seminars to many who could be considered revolutionary philosophers, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/6-13\/\">Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/9-13-prison-abolition\/\">Angela Davis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/8-13\/\">Frantz Fanon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/4-13\/\">Paulo Freire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/5-13\/\">Gandhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/5-13-property-is-theft\/\">Marx<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/2-13\/\">Mao<\/a>, among others, as well as to revolutionary movements like the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/3-13\/\">Arab Spring<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/12-13\/\">Standing Rock<\/a>. Yet there are many worldly philosophers that we have not discussed\u2014and that Biodun Jeyifo urges us to interrogate: Amilcar Cabral, Fidel Castro, Nawal El Saadawi, C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, Walter Rodney, among others. What is it about these thinkers and their work that affected critical praxis differently? What unique insights can we glean by turning the prism toward their writings and actions?<\/p>\n<p>Tough questions all\u2014perhaps the place to begin is to draw a list of those worldly philosophers and social movements that ignited revolutions. Here is the beginning of such a list, drawing on Biodun Jeyifo\u2019s review essay, with contributions from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/etienne-balibar\/\">\u00c9tienne Balibar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cccct.law.columbia.edu\/people\/che-gossett\">Che Gossett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cccct.law.columbia.edu\/people\/fonda-shen\">Fonda Shen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cccct.law.columbia.edu\/people\/omavi-shukur\">Omavi Shukur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2>ACT UP (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/uprising-9-13-the-body-and-trouble-readings\/\">Uprising 9\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgeaumoithe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ACT-UP-Aumoithe.pdf\">Vito Russo speech<\/a> [1988]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Alcatraz Proclamation (U.S.) (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/12-13\/\">Uprising 12\/13<\/a> on Standing Rock)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Oakes et al., <em>The Alcatraz Proclamation<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/alcatrazproclamationandletter.html\">here<\/a>) [1969]<\/li>\n<li>Vine Victor Deloria Jr., <em>Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto<\/em> [1969]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Amilcar Cabral (Guinea)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Amilcar Cabral, <em>Resistance and Decolonization <\/em>[1977]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fidel Castro (Cuba)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fidel Castro, <em>The Declarations of Havana<\/em> [1962]<\/li>\n<li>Regis Debray, \u201cR\u00e9volution dans la R\u00e9volution\u201d [1967] (in close collaboration with Fidel Castro)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire (Martinique) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/6-13\/\">Nietzsche 6\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, <em>Discourse on Colonialism<\/em> [1955]<\/li>\n<li>Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, <em>And the dogs were silent\u2026 <\/em>[1946]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Che Guevara (Argentina)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara, <em>Guerilla Warfare<\/em> [1961] or <em>The Motorcycle Diaries<\/em> [1992]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Combahee River Collective (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/4-13\/\">Revolution 4\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective<\/em>, ed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [2017]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Angela Davis (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/9-13-prison-abolition\/\">Abolition Democracy 9\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Angela Davis, <em>Angela Davis: An Autobiography <\/em>[1974]<\/li>\n<li>Assata Shakur, <em>\u201cWomen in Prison: How We Are\u201d <\/em>[1978]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nawal El Saadawi, <em>Women and Sex<\/em> [1969] and <em>Woman at Point Zero<\/em> [1975] and Nawal El Saadawi, <em>The Nawal El Saadawi Reader <\/em>[1972-1997] (New York: Zed Books, 1997).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Frantz Fanon (Martinique\/Algeria) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/6-13\/\">Nietzsche 8\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Frantz Fanon, <em>Wretched of the Earth<\/em> [1961]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Paulo Freire (Brazil) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/\">Critique 13\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Paulo Freire, <em>Pedagogy of the Oppressed <\/em>[1968]<\/li>\n<li>Theatre of the Oppressed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gandhi (India) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/5-13\/\">Uprising 5\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mohandas Gandhi,\u00a0<em>Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)<\/em>\u00a0[1951] (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/2574-2\/\">selections here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Emma Goldman (U.S.)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Goldman,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.berkeley.edu\/goldman\/PrimarySources\/publishedessaysandpamphletsbygoldman.html\"><em>The Emma Goldman Papers<\/em><\/a> [1909-1938]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Antonio Gramsci (Italy) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/3-13\/\">Revolution 3\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Antonio Gramsci, <em>Prison Notebooks<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 [1947]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"gmail_default\">Stuart Hall (Jamaica &amp; UK) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/6-13\/\">Revolution 6\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0 Stuart Hall,\u00a0<i>Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands<\/i>\u00a0(2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>V\u00e1clav Havel (Czech)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>V\u00e1clev Havel, <em>The Power of the Powerless<\/em> [1978] (1985) <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120107141633\/https:\/www.vaclavhavel.cz\/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&amp;val=72_aj_clanky.html&amp;typ=HTML\">online here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ho Chi Minh, <em>Down with Colonialism! <\/em>(Selected Writings) [1920-1960]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>George Jackson (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/7-13\/\">Revolution 7\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>George Jackson, <em>Soledad Brothers<\/em> [1970]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em>\u00a0<\/em>C.L.R. James (Trinidad) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/2-13\/\">Revolution 2\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>C.L.R. James, <em>The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L&#8217;Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution<\/em> [1963]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jean Jaur\u00e8s (France)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean Jaur\u00e8s, <em>Histoire Socialiste<\/em> [1903]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/8-13\/\">Revolution 8\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, <em>The Stonewall Reader<\/em>\u00a0[1987, 1989]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Claudia Jones (Trinidad)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carol Boyce Davies, <em>Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones\u00a0 <\/em>[2008] <a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/books\/book\/1237\/Left-of-Karl-MarxThe-Political-Life-of-Black\">https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/books\/book\/1237\/Left-of-Karl-MarxThe-Political-Life-of-Black<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mariame Kaba (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/13-13-reparations\/\">Abolition Democracy 13\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mariame Kaba, <em>We Do This \u2018Til We Free Us<\/em> [2021]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Hans-J\u00fcrgen Krahl (West Germany) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/9-13\/\">Revolution 9\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hans-J\u00fcrgen Krahl,\u00a0<em>Constitution and Class Conflict<\/em> (1971, untranslated)<\/li>\n<li>Dossier on Hans-J\u00fcrgen Krahl in\u00a0<em>Viewpoint Magazine<\/em> (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Audre Lorde (US) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/12-13\/\">Critique 12\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Audre Lorde, <em>Zami: A New Spelling of My Name<\/em> [1982]<\/li>\n<li>Audre Lorde, <em>The Cancer Journals <\/em>[1980]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Martin Luther King, Jr. (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/8-13\/\">Uprising 8\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Luther King, Jr., <em>A Testament of Hope <\/em>[1956-1968]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Lenin (Russia) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/5-13\/\">Revolution 5\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vladimir Lenin, <em>Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism<\/em> [1917]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Rosa Luxemburg (Poland\/Germany) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/5-13\/\">Revolution 5\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosa Luxemburg, <em>The Accumulation of Capital<\/em> [1913]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Malcolm X (U.S.) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/10-13\/\">Revolution 10\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Malcolm X, <em>The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches <\/em>[1971] (or <em>By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X Speeches and Writings) <\/em>[1992]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nelson Mandela (South Africa)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nelson Mandela, <em>Prison Letters<\/em> [1962-1990]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mao (China) (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/2-13\/\">Uprising 2\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mao Zedong, <em>The Little Red Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung <\/em>[1972]<\/li>\n<li>Mao Zedong, \u201cOn Contradiction\u201d [1937 (available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/mao\/selected-works\/volume-1\/mswv1_17.htm\">Marxists.org here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Godard, <em>La Chinoise <\/em>[1967]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jose Carlos Mariategui (Peru)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jose Carlos Mariategui, <em>An Anthology<\/em> [1924-1930]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Marx and Engels (Germany\/UK) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/5-13-property-is-theft\/\">Abolition Democracy 5\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Marx and Engels, <em>Communist Manifesto <\/em>[1848]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jarwaharlal Nehru (India)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jarwaharlal Nehru, <em>Letters from a Father to His Daughter<\/em> [1929]<\/li>\n<li>Jarwaharlal Nehru, <em>An Autobiography<\/em> [1936]<\/li>\n<li>Jarwaharlal Nehru, <em>The Discovery of India<\/em> [1946]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/2-13\/\">Revolution 2\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kwame Nkrumah, <em>Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism <\/em>[1965]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ani Pachen (Tibet)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ani Pachen,\u00a0<em>Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun <\/em>[2000]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Walter Rodney (Guyana)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Walter Rodney, <em>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa<\/em> [1972]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Sankara, <em>Thomas Sankara Speaks: the Burkina Faso Revolution: 1983\u201387<\/em> [1988]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor (Senegal)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, <em>Libert\u00e9 <\/em>[1964]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Doria Shafik (Egypt)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Doria Shafik, <em>La bonne aventure<\/em> [1949]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ali Shari\u2019ati (Iran) (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/13-13\/\">Nietzsche 13\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ali Shari\u2019ati, \u201cMan and Islam: \u2018The free man and freedom of man&#8217;\u201d [1976]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"gmail_default\">Eric Eustace Williams (Trinidad and Tobego)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><i>Capitalism and Slavery <\/i>[1944]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"gmail_default\">Prison Writings (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/7-13\/\">Revolution 7\/13<\/a>)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">Joy James, ed. <i>The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings<\/i>\u00a0(SUNY Press, 2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<p>Looking over this list, we might ask: What is it about these ideas, manifestos, and writings\u2014and not others\u2014that ignited revolutions? What work did these books do to spark mass mobilization? How and why did they bring about revolutionary action, even if short lived?<\/p>\n<p>Now, to be sure, there are several objections that can be raised to this framing: Does it privilege the men who wrote their own history? Yes, no doubt; but there are also women and queer thinkers on this list: Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman, Claudia Jones, Doria Shafik, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Silvia Rivera, Ani Pachen, Nawal El Saadawi, Mariame Kaba. Does it fall victim to the \u201cgreat man\u201d theory of history? Again, yes, no doubt, even though there are collectives on our list as well, including ACT UP, the Alcatraz occupation movement, the Combahee River Collective. Does it privilege physical, violent, or armed resistance over other forms of transformation? Once again, yes, even if Gandhi and MLK feature on our list as well. Those who have accomplished the long and tedious work of cultural transformation, over the <em>longue dur\u00e9e<\/em>, may be less present on this list. Does it privilege national identity, given that so many of these activist thinkers were involved in wars of national liberation and, thus, tied to notions of the nation? Yes, here too. And, there is no question: we need to explore, with Saidiya Hartman, the voices that are missing from the archive\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Does the list also privilege national identity, given that so many of these activist thinkers were involved in wars of national liberation and, thus, tied to notions of the nation? Yes, here too: every name, every revolutionary in our list is specifically identified with his or her country. But note that in the syllabus itself, we have expanded the national and regional spaces in which the lives, works and praxis of the \u201cworldly philosophers\u201d had their impact. Moreover, even when the purview is limited to a single national space, that space is not dominated by one titan; rather, it is a contested space in which contending theories of changing the world clash, often going beyond ideas to decisive impact on the world. Indeed, in this particular regard, this edition of the 13\/13 seminars departs from some previous editions in the fact that the normative dominance of single-author oeuvres of academic philosophers gives way to the usual double or multiple oeuvres and practices of activist thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, a question remains: How is it that some ideas and manifestos, more so than others, have ignited, animated, or galvanized people to rise in revolution? What is it about these ideas and their theoretical moves\u2014and not others? What can they tell us about critique and praxis? Should we not explore, perhaps for this 13\/13 seminar series, what the \u201cworldly philosophers\u201d can tell us about critical praxis theory? Yes, let\u2019s do that this year. Let\u2019s do that together. Welcome to the revolutionary ideas, manifestos, and texts of the worldly philosophers\u2014or, for short\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Revolution 13\/13!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Revolution 13\/13 Recap<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This past year, we were fortunate to have been joined by an extraordinary series of guests to discuss worldly philosophers, critical texts, and revolutionary movements. We began with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/biodun-jeyifo\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biodun Jeyifo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who inspired this series with his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/files\/2021\/09\/Jeyifo-An-22illuminati22-and-its-acolytes-CP-Review.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">critique of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critique and Praxis<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/1-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 1\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to discuss The Congresses of Black Writers and the Bandung Conference. At <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/2-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 2\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/adom-getachew\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adom Getachew<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joined us to talk about Kwame Nkrumah, C.L.R. James, and George Padmore, and wrote <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/adom-getachew-the-theory-and-praxis-of-worldly-philosophers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a brilliant essay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on worldly philosophers. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/etienne-balibar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Etienne Balibar <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joined us from France to discuss Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the \u201cengaged philosopher\u201d at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/3-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 3\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike past years, which took place primarily on Columbia\u2019s campus, we had the great fortune to host many of our seminars in New York at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesforum.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The People\u2019s Forum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this year. Our first seminar there was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/4-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 4\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Combahee River Collective Statement and the origins of identity politics. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/amy-allen\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy Allen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joined us next at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/5-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 5\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, and Eduard Bernstein, and contributed an extraordinary new essay on \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/amy-allen-revolution-history-and-the-beyond-of-capitalism-re-reading-the-luxemburg-bernstein-debate\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution, History, and the Beyond of Capitalism: Re-reading the Luxemburg-Bernstein Debate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/kendall-thomas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kendall Thomas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one of the founding scholars of Critical Race Theory, joined us for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/6-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 6\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to analyze Stuart Hall, Manning Marable, and what to do about Critical Race Theory today. Following the winter holiday, we were back at The People\u2019s Forum for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/7-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 7\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on prison writings. We were honored to be joined by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/albert-woodfox\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Albert Woodfox<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solitary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and member of the Angola Three, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/paul-redd\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Redd<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, member of The Short Corridor Collective, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/darryl-robertson\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darryl Robertson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, author and new culture editor at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esquire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the premier prison writings scholar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/joy-james\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joy James<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We were delighted to be joined by our IJS colleague <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/che-gossett\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Che Gossett<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Columbia\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/jack-halberstam\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jack Halberstam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/8-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 8\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on queer and trans rebellion. Halberstam and Gossett also shared new essays with us on \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/jack-halberstam-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unbuild the World!<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/che-gossett-after-life-abolition-and-queer-trans-black-aids-activist-archives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Life: Abolition and Queer, Trans &amp; Black AIDS Activist Archives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After almost two years of COVID, we had our first international 13\/13 seminar in Frankfurt at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/9-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 9\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/martin-saar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Saar <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on Hans-J\u00fcrgen Krahl, a little-known yet brilliant revolutionary thinker of the Frankfurt School. Back in New York, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/cornel-west\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornel West <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/brandon-terry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brandon Terry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gave extraordinary presentations on Malcolm X at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/10-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 10\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We traveled to Paris in March to sit down with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/antonio-negri\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toni Negri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/11-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 11\/13 <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to discuss his life, philosophy, and activism. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/12-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 12\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was our final session in New York, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/sarah-haley\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Haley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Abolition Feminism, where we read the new book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abolition. Feminism. Now<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. and Haley\u2019s book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Mercy Here<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Circling back to a central theme in the 13\/13 series, the tie between theory and praxis, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-host\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> concluded the seminar series with a keynote speech on genealogy and praxis, \u201cWhat Good Is Genealogy for Praxis?\u201d, in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/13-13\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 13\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All videos, resources, readings, and blog posts can be found on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revolution 13\/13<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> website and on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4pJgpthYlJerDooV-flipRUc_8idcuTx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube channel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are grateful to all of our guests, our AV teams on campus and at The People\u2019s Forum, the Heyman Center for their ongoing support, and everyone who participated in the seminar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned for next year\u2019s 13\/13 series!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ~~~ The ideas and manifestos of \u201cworldly philosophers\u201d that ignited revolutions\u2026 CCCCT Seminar Series 2021-2022 (7th edition) &nbsp; If the central argument is a rousing reaffirmation of the mandate to make theory change the world for the better, which&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}