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Of Great Importance

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The poems in Of Great Importance discuss taxes and debts, stocks and flows, citizenship and labor contracts, notaries and accountants, factories and strikes, freedoms and fundamental rights, how to make money and how to win elections, ...

Journal of Badiou Studies 5: Architheater

Read Editor's Introduction and Martin Puchner's "The Theater of Alain Badiou" Here! The fifth volume of the Journal of Badiou Studies, "Architheater," energized by the publication of Badiou’s Rhapsodie pour le théâtre (2014), knits together distinguished approaches to artistic ...

Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology

Forthcoming

Creeps surround us, seemingly everywhere. People creep each other both on the streets and online, with digital technologies vectoring a lot of cyber-stalking kinds of behavior. It’s so easy to spy on people that “creep ...

Of the Contract

Read an Excerpt from Of the Contract Here!The question of the contract is a secondary question that has come in the awareness of the fact that there are things to take account of – that ...

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Democracy … is not an established reality, nor is it a mere ideal; it is rather a permanent struggle for democratization. Can open access be understood in similar terms: less as a homogeneous project striving to become a dominating model or force, and more as an ongoing critical struggle, or series of struggles? … Certainly, one of the advantages of conceptualizing open access as a process of struggle rather than as a model to be implemented would be that doing so would create more space for radically different, conflicting, even incommensurable positions within the larger movement, including those that are concerned with experimenting critically with the form of the book and the way our system of scholarly communication currently operates. … In fact if, as we have seen, one of the impulses behind open access is to make knowledge and research—and with it society—more open and democratic, it can be argued that the existence of … dissensus will help achieve this ambition.

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