One of the questions raised by Frédéric Lordon’s Imperium relates to what a political body can do, what actions it is capable of, what projects it imagines are possible. Turning to Spinoza, Lordon argues that ‘what a body can do depends on the configuration of its ingenium’. As deployed by Lordon, ingenium seemingly denotes aContinue reading “Enzo Traverso’s Revolution: An Intellectual History”
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Completing the Unresolved Plot of History
Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out My article Completing the Unresolved Plot of History: Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out has been published on Tom Pazderka’s Substack, A Secret Plot. The piece considers the combination of mythology, capital, and furious readers in Piglia’s eerily anachronistic and offbeatContinue reading “Completing the Unresolved Plot of History”
Thomas Travers 