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Reflects on the nature of the political & its relation to democratic identities. Politics is defined as an encounter between struggles for emancipation & efforts to establish order through policy making. It is suggested that current debates over the political have been stymied by the identification of politics with the self of a community. Politics is understood as inherently anarchic, & thus lacking a particular central subjectivity or identity. The only universal value acknowledged is equality, but this value is understood less as pregiven than as enacted in the process of political struggles. In the act of struggling, individuals are subjectivized to the extent that they claim & demonstrate one identity while refusing others. It is concluded that current debates over the relation between universality & identity are misguided & should be replaced by discussions of the relation between the tribal & the idiomatic. It is in this conceptual universe & understanding of politics that issues such as ethnic nationalism, which now press on the world, might be most profitably addressed. D. M. Smith

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: The Violence of Consensus -- 1 The New Racism: A Passion from Above -- 2 A Modest Proposal to Help the Victims -- 3 An Elusive Populism -- 4 Unravelling the Confusions Serving the Dominant Order -- 5 On Freedom of Expression -- 6 The Hatred of Equality -- 7 Fools and Sages : Reflections on the End of the Trump Presidency -- 8 A Golden Opportunity? Reflections in the Time of Lockdown -- Part Two: Moments of Democracy -- 9 The Pandemic and Inequality -- 10 Interpreting the 68 Event : Politics, Philosophy, Sociology -- 11 Occupation -- 12 Nuit Debout : Desire for Community or Egalitarian Invention? -- 13 The Virtues of the Inexplicable : On the Gilets Jaunes -- 14 Beyond the Hatred of Democracy -- 15 Speech at the Assembly of Railway Workers -- Notes -- Preface -- 1 The New Racism: A Passion from Above -- 3 An Elusive Populism -- 4 Unravelling the Confusions Serving the Dominant Order -- 6 The Hatred of Equality -- 9 The Pandemic and Inequality -- 10 Interpreting the 68 Event -- 11 Occupation -- 12 Nuit Debout -- 14 Beyond the Hatred of Democracy -- EULA.

This book offers a provocative and original reading of Deleuze's entire philosophy, highlighting the question of modality (the actual, the virtual, the possible, the impossible and the incompossible), the problematic relationship between the event and the assemblage, and the unifying theme of the vitalism of nonorganic life.