The problem How is resistance to capital possible if any movement of interruption or contestation is at present immanent to the “logic” of capital? Where can resistance be located if all life worlds have been appropriated and subsumed by capital?… Continue Reading
To talk about independence, insurrection, autonomy, I’ll use three photographs as my point of departure—two of Fortino Sámano, about to be executed on March 2nd, 1917, and one of Pablo López, also about to die on June 5th, 1916. The… Continue Reading
In a wave that Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlam described as an experiment in radical political democracy and the US media dubbed “the Pink Tide,” Latin Americans voted social democratic governments into power beginning in the late 1990s. [i] Over… Continue Reading
Introduction The one slogan stuck on the wall in my early classrooms that I remember best was “to learn, to learn, to learn” (tanulni, tanulni, tanulni), signed Lenin. Vladmir Ilyich, never my hero, was admittedly a genuine learner. From… Continue Reading
At Uprising 10/13, we will explore the notions of anti-imperialism and of national independence that marked many of the revolutionary uprisings in Latin and South America during the mid-20th century. We do so as a vehicle to also interrogate more… Continue Reading