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After the Fictions: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude
Dilip Gaonkar
People do not riot every day, but they have rioted often enough in the past, especially since the onset of modernity. People continue to riot with alarming regularity in the present, especially in the so-called Global South, as the saga of modernity continues to unfold now in its global phase. This repeated and continued reliance on rioting as a distinctive, but historically and culturally variable, mode of collective action (if not agency) merits greater attention than it has hitherto…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2014
Category
Capitalism, Philosophy, Democracy
Subjects
Riots, Sovereignty, Fiction