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1. Introduction -- 2. Foucault's critical ethos -- 3. The analysis of limits -- 4. The limits of humanism -- 5. Foucault's regicide of political philosophy -- 6. Transgression and aesthetics -- 7. Theoretical transgression of limits -- 8. Practical transgression of limits -- 9. Foucault in contemporary political theory.

Israeli peace activism has increasingly taken place on new media, as in the case of the grassroots anti-Occupation group, Ta'ayush. What is the significance of Ta'ayush's work on the ground and online for peace? This article considers
the former in the light of social movement scholarship on peacebuilding, and the latter in light of new media scholarship on social movements. Each of those approaches suggest that Ta'ayush has very limited success in achieving its
strategic goals or generating outrage about the Occupation in the virtual/public sphere. Yet, Ta'ayush's apparent "failure" according to standard criteria of success misses the significance of Ta'ayush's work. Its combination of grassroots activism and online documentation of its work in confronting the Occupation in partnership with Palestinians has assembled
an impressive archive. Through the lens of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history, Ta'ayush can be seen to enact a "future perfect" peace that will have come. (author's abstract)

Recent interest in communism as an idea prompts reconsideration of Walter Benjamin's conception of a "communist" aesthetic politics. In spite of Benjamin's categorical condemnation of aestheticized politics, his "artwork essay" is better read as both explicit condemnation of a particular (regressive fascist) type of aestheticized politics and implicit commendation of another (progressive communist) type. Under the modern conditions of the technological reproducibility of art, and mass politics, the character of and relationship between the cultural value spheres of politics and aesthetics also changes. Benjamin analyzes dialectically the actuality of the fascist response to modern mass arts and politics in which technology and society are misaligned, and the potentiality of a communist response that would bring about a collective interplay of humanity and technology.