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Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lectures 2023: Bruno Bosteels – Lecture 1


6 Jun 2023, 3:00pm - 5:30pm

Zoom, https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94320937081

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Cost FREE
Department Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, English and Creative Writing, Sociology
Website CPCT Site
Contact J.McGuinn(@gold.ac.uk)

The first of two lectures from Bruno Bosteels (Columbia) hosted by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT)

The State and Insurrection
Respondent: Camila Vergara (Politics, Cambridge)

Over the past decades, politics has taken a clear insurrectionary turn. Long before the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the Left too had begun identifying its momentum with various popular uprisings and insurrectionary movements. An updated version of Lenin’s classic text therefore could be titled The State and Insurrection, insofar as the focus on the takeover of state power has become a thing of the past for the radical Left. In Europe, for example, this trend had been growing ever since the events of 1968, while in Latin America the declining power and electoral defeats of the Pink Tide governments contributed to a similar exhaustion of state-oriented politics. The result in both cases, however, is an extreme impoverishment in the theory of the state—long considered a major lacuna in classical Marxism and nowadays for the most part replaced with a vague libertarian consensus against the cold monster of the state.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Bruno Bosteels is professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, USA. His research covers a wide range of topics in literature, culture and politics in modern Latin America as well as contemporary philosophy and political theory. He is currently preparing two new books, the first a sustained polemical engagement with contemporary post-Heideggerian thought, titled Philosophies of Defeat: The Jargon of Finitude (Verso), and the other, its utopian counterpart, The Mexican Commune (Duke). A collection of essays is forthcoming under the title The State and Insurrection: New Interventions in Latin American Marxist Theory (Pittsburgh).

Camila Vergara is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the author of Systemic Corruption. Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020).

Zoom link:
https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94320937081

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