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 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
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
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
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
By Bernard E. Harcourt The epilogue to Uprising 1/13 serves as a useful pivot from Marx to Mao and to a different modality of uprising that might be called insurrection or insurgency: a pivot from the modern concept of revolution… Continue Reading