There are passing references to the Palestinian experience of uprising in the readings for Uprising 3/13. Did the First Intifada, in particular, serve in any way as a model for the protests of the Arab Spring? Commentators have pointed out parallels between… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Indeed, it remains a question if what emerged during the Arab Spring were in fact revolutions in the sense of their twentieth-century counterparts.” — Asef Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (2017)[1]… Continue Reading
Bhargav Rani, editor-in-chief of the CUNY Advocate, has written a brilliant, lengthy editorial, titled “To Revolution or Not to Revolution” (Oct 10, 2017) addressing the central problematics of Uprising 13/13. Rani urges us to place these questions at the heart… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The intense discussion at Uprising 2/13 with Claire Fontaine, Claudia Pozzana, and Alessandro Russo, made clear that there are, in fact, at least four different paradigms of uprising nested under the concept of “Maoist insurrection,” and… Continue Reading
By Claire Fontaine The humorous and unconventional reception of Mao and Maoism will be approached in two cases. The first and best known one is Godard’s La Chinoise where Maoism (and leftist politics more generally) are used as an aesthetic,… Continue Reading
Francesco Guercio (PhD, The European Graduate School) has produced a brilliant annotated English translation of the first notebook of A/Traverso, Notebook #1 (October 1975), Part 1/4. This remarkable translation is from a very rare original copy of the A/Traverso notebooks,… Continue Reading
By Claire Fontaine It’s not enough to denounce the lies of the power, we need to denounce and break also the truths of the power. When the power tells the truth and it pretends that it’s something natural, we must… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco The following are mostly a series of questions for which I have no answers. The answers would require a high degree of specialization in Chinese, the printing press in revolutionary China, and the industries of translation… Continue Reading