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Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left comprises short essays on fifty revolutionary keywords, each word being put to work on a contemporary political issue. With keywords ranging from academicisation to neoliberalism, from postcolonial to Zionism and with subjects including, Badiou, North Korea, sexual violence and Žižek, the book concludes with an essay mapping the development of progressive keywords before our century of revolution, which began in 1917, keywords that emerged in the fifty years of struggle between 1917 and 1967, and revolutionary keywords for the new left today.

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ISBN-13:	9781785356421
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	12/08/2017
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ian Parker is an activist and academic, and practising psychoanalyst. He is part of the Asylum Collective which produces Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry. Ian lives in Manchester, UK.

Acknowledgements x

Introduction 1

Academicisation 10

Accelerationism 15

Agency 19

Animals 24

Antagonism 29

Appropriation 33

Campism 38

Cis 43

Discourse 48

Ecosocialism 53

Empire 58

Eurocommunism 63

Event 68

Fascism 73

Feminisation 79

Globalisation 83

Homonationalism 88

Identification 92

Identity 97

Intersectionality 102

Islamophobia 106

Justice 111

Multitude 116

Neoliberalism 121

Normalcy 125

Occupy 129

Other 134

Pabloism 139

Performativity 144

Postcolonial 148

Postmodernism 153

Precarity 158

Prefigurative 163

Psychoanalysis 168

Psychologisation 173

Queer 178

Realism 182

Recuperation 187

Refusal 192

Spirituality 197

Stalinism 202

Standpoint 207

Structurelessness 212

Subjectivity 217

Trans 222

Transition 227

Wages 232

Whiteness 237

Young-Girl 242

Zionism 247

Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left 251

Editorial Reviews

Ian Parker’s Revolutionary Keywords is an innovative and rigorous analytic for the contemporary left whose passionate discourses sometimes lose the theoretical clarity that distinguishes Marx’s own writings. Revolutionary Keywords takes philosophical risks by unlayering the conceptual densities of such complex concepts as antagonism, normalcy, precarity, and accelerationism. In laying bare each concept, Parker provides the philosophico-historical lines of its formation and situates it within its broad social conditions. The book is a pioneering convergence of activist writings and philosophical inquiry.

Teresa Ebert

Ian Parker's Keywords are an extremely useful tool for activists who want to orient themselves among the various words circulating in left discourses. With his clear and accessible prose, Parker manages to successfully combine theoretical and practical concerns, never losing sight of the goal: transforming the world through political practice.

Cinzia Arruzza

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