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 Veränderung aus dem Alltag heraus nicht zu überschätzen. Denn nur als Genossen vermögen wir in den Weltenlauf einzugreifen - und das ist in Zeiten des Neoliberalismus und Klimawandels dringender denn...
In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade?. Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies? on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relation of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended.In Comrade, Dean offers a theory of the comra...
Originally part of the "Pocket Communism" series, including books by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, "The Communist Horizon" finds Jodi Dean unshackling the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union, demonstrating communism's continuing and urgent relevance.
This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies are being used by civil society organizations to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders.
This wide-ranging book responds to and moves beyond recent debates about the relationship between feminism and politics to offer a vision for the future of feminist theory. Leading figures have combined to offer a broad framework through which to articulate a `new democracy' - one that transgresses the traditional oppositions of equality and difference, sex and gender, essential and constructed, to view the `political' as complex, layered and ...
This wide-ranging book responds to and moves beyond recent debates about the relationship between feminism and politics to offer a vision for the future of feminist theory. Leading figures have combined to offer a broad framework through which to articulate a `new democracy' - one that transgresses the traditional oppositions of equality and difference, sex and gender, essential and constructed, to view the `political' as complex, layered and ...
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 ap...
Aliens, the author asserts, provide cultural icons through which to access the new conditions of democratic politics at the millennium. Because of the technological complexity of our age, political choices and decisions have become virtually meaningless, practically impossible. How do we judge what is real, believable, trustworthy or authoritative? When the truth is out there, but we can trust no-one, Dean argues, paranoia is indeed the most s...
In recent decades, media outlets in the United States-most notably the Internet-have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's...
Jodi Dean löst das kommunistische Ideal von den Verfehlungen der Sowjetunion und wendet sich damit gegen die weiter wirksamen Vorurteile des Kalten Krieges. Heute, in einer Zeit, da die Geschäftigkeit des internationalen Bankenwesens die ausgebeuteten Bevölkerungsschichten weltweit wachgerüttelt und ins Bild gesetzt hat über die Unzulänglichkeit eines Wirtschaftssystems, das sich ewigem Wachstum verschrieben hat, ist es höchste Zeit für die Li...