4.7.26 Book Launch for Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism

With translator Brian Whitener

7-8pm EST

Please join us at a book launch for the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism just out from Duke University Press: https://www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-of-capitalism

“Framed by brilliant readings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurizio Lazzarato’s Revolutions of Capitalism charts a new theory of contemporary capitalism and the politics against it. Originally published in French in 2004, this newly translated work sees capitalism as driven, not only by labor or value, but by the capture of cooperation and by the taming of possibles. Lazzarato theorizes how contemporary capitalism depends on noo-politics, or the “action of brains at a distance on other brains,” which seeks to control memory and attention and to trap the proliferation of possibles. Against this, Lazzarato reveals how current social movements attack established institutions and their vision of a single possible world to liberate the creation and actualization of a multiplicity of possible worlds.”

The introduction from Brian Whitener can be read here:

Click to access 978-1-4780-3859-7_601.pdf