Politics of the Many

<i>Politics of the Many</i> draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many - they are few!' This idea of the Many as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that cannot be erased for the sake of the One is the philosophical and political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They raise questions of collective agency and its crisis in contemporary capitalism via new engagements with Marxist philosophy psychoanalysis theories of social reproduction and value-form and post-colonial critiques and drawing on activist thought and strategies. <br/> <br/>This book<i></i>interrogates both established and emergent formations of the Many (the people classes publics crowds masses multitudes) tracing their genealogies their recent failures and victories and their potentials to change the world. The book proposes and explores an intense and provoking series of new or reinvented concepts figures and theoretical constellations including dividuality the centaur unintentional vanguard insomnia at work always-on capitalism multitude (from its 'voiding' to a '(non)emergence') crowds necropolitics and the link between political subjectivity and value-form. <br/> <br/>The contributors to <i>Politics of the Many</i> are both acclaimed and emergent thinkers including Carina Brand Rebecca Carson Luhuna Carvalho Lorenzo Chiesa Jodi Dean Dario Gentili Benjamin Halligan Marc James Léger Paul Mazzocchi Alexei Penzin Stefano Pippa Gerald Raunig and Stevphen Shukaitis.