There Is No Unhappy Revolution

The Communism of Destitution

Marcello Tar, Richard Braude

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English

Common Notions
06 May 2021

Social theory

""A powerful case for the persistent questioning and existential interruption that accompanies that pursuit of [happiness and revolution], and fuels it, and constitutes and ruptures its vagrant, open end.""--Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition ""It is hard today to escape the perception that financial violence and fascism are suffocating every possibility of happiness...

There Is No Unhappy Revolution shows a possible way out from this despair.""--Franco ""Bifo"" Berardi, author of Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility. In a time of ongoing political, economic, and climate crisis, can we afford our collective unhappiness any longer? There Is No Unhappy Revolution gives expression to the age of revolution unfolding before us. With equal parts sophistication and raw urgency, Marcello Tari identifies the original moments as well as the powerful disruptive and creative content haunting our times like a specter. The age of revolution is back, and with it, instability and uncertainty a major marker of our times. There is a renewed faith in popular rebellion as a means to enact sorely needed systemic change. At the heart of these dynamics rests a new theory of social change and societal well-being. Happiness is collective, not individual, as Marcello Tari explains, and our collective desire for happiness is a revolutionary force that cannot and should not be contained. One hundred years after the October Revolution, amidst our current civilizational crisis, is it still possible to think and build communism? Yes, Tari responds, provided we radically rethink the tradition of revolutionary movements that have followed one century to another. Offering both a militant philosophy and a philosophy of militancy, he deftly confronts the different contemporary movements from the Argentinean insurrection of 2001 to Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish Indignados, the French movement against the labor law, and the Arab Spring, resurrecting and renewing a lineage of revolutionary thought, from Walter Benjamin to Giorgio Agamben, that promises to make life livable.

By: Marcello Tar
Translated by: Richard Braude
Imprint: Common Notions
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781942173168
ISBN 10: 1942173164
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 06 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely

Marcello Tar is an independent researcher. He is author of numerous essays and books in French and Italian, including Il ghiaccio era sottile: Per una storia dell'autonomia (Derive Approdi, 2012) and Non esiste la rivoluzione infelice: Il comunismo della destituzione (Derive Approdi, 2017); as well as Autonomie!: Italie, les annees 1970 (La Fabrique, 2011) and Il n y a pas de revolution malheureuse: Le communisme de la destitution (Editions Divergences, 2019). Tar has lived in the last few years between France and Italy. There Is No Unhappy Revolution is his first book in English.