By Jesús R. Velasco Nota Bene: The following reflections are related to the projection of Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967). While we were watching the movie, the main actress Anne Wiazemsky passed away in her sleep. How does insurrection work?… Continue Reading
Claude Channes sings Mao Mao 1n 1967. Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise. A year before, Jacques Dutronc recorded Et moi, et moi, et moi. Nino Ferrer, Mao et moi. 1967
By Claudia Pozzana Of the five lecture topics on Mao Alessandro Russo and I shall present two are philosophical, two political and one both philosophical and political. Politics and philosophy are always linked in Mao. There’s always a trespassing towards… Continue Reading
By Alessandro Russo Here are some preliminary remarks regarding the role uprising plays in Mao’s political theorizing and strategy formulation and on the relationship between uprising and revolution. 1. A first step is to link what follows with the… Continue Reading
Philip Glass | Satyagraha. “Evening Song” (Act 3, scene 3)
By Jesús R. Velasco I do have a few questions about how a movement becomes a revolution. I will start this line of questioning with one of the lost meanings of the word revolution —revolution as the process of soul-transmigration.… Continue Reading
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I begin with the Rohingyas being plowed down mercilessly in Burma. We are of course asking in the short range for a safe zone protected by UN peacekeeping forces. But the real requirement is a revolution… Continue Reading
G C Spivak, Global Marx G C Spivak General Strike G C Spivak Old Women G C Spivak Revolutions that as yet have no model G C Spivak A Note on the New International G C Spivak Rethinking Comparativism
Mao, Selection of texts.
“The Arab revolt of 2011 belongs to a rare class of historical events: a concatenation of political upheavals, one detonating the other, across an entire region of the world. There have been only three prior instances—the Hispanic American Wars of… Continue Reading