Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to newly emerging social network platforms and applications. Set against the background of the...
Rising thinker on the resurgence of the communist idea. In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of international banking has alerted exploited populations the world over to the unsustainability of an economic system predicated on perpetual growth, it is time the left ended its melancholic accommodation with capitalism. In the new capitalism of networked information...
How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the state—such as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the world—they create a gap...
Genosse kommt von genießen! Sich emphatisch als Genosse anzusprechen mag etwas aus der Mode gekommen zu sein. Dabei ist diese Beziehung eine der fruchtbarsten, intensivsten und handlungsmächtigsten überhaupt – wenngleich nicht ungefährlich. Jodi Dean schreibt die bislang fehlende Theorie des Genossen und greift dabei auf viele kulturelle und historische Beispiele zurück, von Zetkin bis Obama, von Lubitsch bis Sartre. Sie ruft die Linken auf, die Möglichkeit spontaner, unorganisierter...
