Communist Study

Derek R. Ford

doi:10.5771/9781666901016

Summary

In the second edition of this groundbreaking work, Derek R. Ford contends that radical politics needs educational theory, posing a series of educational questions pertinent to revolutionary movements: How can pedagogy bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while respecting the gap and its uncertainty and contingency? How can pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the communist project? In answering these questions, Ford develops a dynamic pedagogical constellation that radically opens up what education is and what it can mean for revolutionary struggle. In charting this constellation, Ford takes the reader on a journey that traverses disciplinary boundaries, innovatively reading theorists as diverse as Lenin, Agamben, Marx, Lyotard, Althusser, and Butler. Demonstrating how learning underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic that, perhaps paradoxically, demands the revolutionary reclamation of testing. Poetic, performative, and provocative, Communist Study is oriented toward what Ford calls “the sublime feeling of being-in-common,” which, as he insists, is always a commonness against.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0100-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0101-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 196
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Notes No access
4. 1. Notes No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Educational Conditions of Revolutionary Transformation No access
2. A Communist Pedagogical Constellation No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. Subject Formation No access
  2. Subject Constitution and Industrial Production: “I”-Ing the Subject No access
  3. Subject Struggles No access
  4. Transition: The General Intellect, Overproduction, and the Falling Rate of Profit No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Immaterial Subjects at Work No access
  2. Producing in Common No access
  3. Notes No access
1. 1. The Taking-Place of Language No access
  2. Bartleby’s Double Refusal No access
  3. Studying Whatever No access
  4. Fugitive Studying in the Undercommons No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Education and the System No access
  2. Poor Marie No access
  3. Life in Secret No access
  4. Notes No access
3. 1. You Have the Right! No access
  2. Signs, Machines, and the Expressive Subject No access
  3. The Democratic Project of Critical Pedagogy (and Its Conspiring Critics) No access
  4. Fugitive Study: Secret Resistance No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. Discourse and Its Figure No access
  2. Figure and Its Discourse No access
  3. A Figural Education No access
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5. 1. Negation as the Temporal Axis Of Communist Study No access
  2. Past Times No access
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1. 1. Pedagogy: Organization and Spontaneity No access
  2. Discipline and Subjectivity No access
  3. Study Party No access
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2. 1. The Determinant Demand: Imperialism’s Criteria No access
  2. The Massacre that Wasn’t No access
  3. Before: Hungary, 1956 No access
  4. After: Libya, 2011 No access
  5. Restraint No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Toward a Revolutionary Test Drive No access
  2. Testing the April Theses No access
  3. The Leninist Test No access
  4. Notes No access
4. 1. Notes No access
Afterword to the First Edition No access Pages 173 - 178
Bibliography No access Pages 179 - 190
Index No access Pages 191 - 194
About the Author No access Pages 195 - 196