Kenneth J. Surin

Chapter · January 1, 2024 The discourses on viruses and virality have hitherto typically been dominated by the spheres of the medical (virology) and communication (the ‘contamination’ of communicative networks, e.g. by computer viruses). The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced alterna ... Cite

Christology

Chapter · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Deleuze and Guattari: Selected Writings

Book · January 1, 2019 Representing a sustained engagement with the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, covering more than two decades and on a wide range of topics, from aesthetics and literature to capitalism and Marxism, Kenneth Surin takes politics as the thematic thread to thi ... Cite

Mao's "on contradiction," mao-hegel/mao-deleuze

Journal Article Clcweb Comparative Literature and Culture · September 1, 2018 Mao Tse-Tung's famous 1937 essay "On Contradiction" is regarded as a significant attempt to redefine and reapply Marx's notion of a "dialectical contradiction" to the Chinese revolutionary conjuncture of Mao's time. I set out the principles outlined in Mao ... Full text Cite

The abyss looks back

Journal Article American Book Review · January 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Deleuze, Guattari and Partial Objects

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Cite

Surroundings: Deleuze and Guattari

Journal Article Canadian Journal of Communication · January 1, 2016 Deleuze and Guattari, as strict immanentists and consistent proponents of an "in-the-middle" or "in-between," had little philosophical time for notions of "the outside" or "the beyond" construed in terms invoking traditional ideas of transcendence (even th ... Full text Cite

"Marxism, without guarantees": What I learned from stuart hall

Journal Article Cultural Critique · December 1, 2015 Cite

What I Learned from Stuart Hall

Journal Article Cultural Critique · 2015 Cite

Review Essay of Grant Farred’s In Motion, at Rest

Book Review Cultural Critique · 2015 Cite

Empire Ten Years After: Much Gratitude, Some Reservations

Journal Article Theory and Event: an online journal of political theory · 2015 Cite

What Will It Take to Stop Israel? Truth and Justice

Journal Article The Other Journal: an Intersection of Theology and Culture · August 2014 Link to item Cite

Western Marxism in the Post-Financial Crisis Era: An Interview with Kenneth Surin, conducted by Shi Yanlin

Journal Article International Critical Thought · 2014 Cite

Western Marxism in the Post-Financial Crisis Era: An Interview with Kenneth Surin

Journal Article International Critical Thought · January 1, 2014 In this interview, Professor Surin speaks about the latest changes in Western Marxism and the urgent need to solve some immediate and practical problems. He provides the theoretical basis and suggests the way forward for the further development of Western ... Full text Cite

Force

Chapter · January 1, 2014 In the second phase, associated primarily with Deleuze’s collaboration with Guattari, the notion of force is effectively generalized, so that it expresses a power that ranges over the entirety of the social order. Here another set of definitions and princi ... Full text Cite

Marxism and religion

Journal Article Critical Research on Religion · April 1, 2013 Featured Publication A brief overview of Marx's account of religion is followed by a consideration of a conception of liberation—a notion shared by marxists and adherents of religious traditions alike—that is substantive enough to overcome the marginalization and exploitation ... Full text Cite

Force

Chapter · January 1, 2013 Deleuze's employment of the concept of force (the same in English and French) can be grasped in terms of two distinctive but somewhat overlapping phases. In the first, associated with the “historical” emphasis on the works on Spinoza and Nietzsche (among o ... Cite

Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order

Journal Article Research on Marxist Aesthetics · 2012 Cite

Lacoue-Labarthe dans un texte où il analysait le rapport de la littérature à la philosophie’. Que vous inspire cette proposition?

Journal Article Contemporary French & Francophone Studies · 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Interview on Marxism and Aesthetics (conducted by Wang Jie, Dean of Humanities, Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Journal Article Research on Marxist Aesthetics · 2012 Cite

Reflections on Freedom not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order

Journal Article Research on Marxist Aesthetics · 2012 Cite

Can there be a Marxist Conception of Value that is not ‘Productivist’?”

Chapter · 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Neoliberal Property Relations

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Can there be a Marxist Conception of Value that is not ‘Productivist’?

Journal Article Research on Marxist Aesthetics · 2012 Cite

Can there be a Marxist Conception of Value that is not ‘Productivist’?

Conference Proceedings of the Sino-British Conference on Marxism, Culture, and Aesthetics · 2012 Cite

Can there be a Delinking Strategy for the Nations of the Caribbean?

Journal Article The Global South · 2012 Full text Cite

Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy

Chapter · November 25, 2011 Full text Cite

Can There Be A Delinking Strategy For The Nations Of The Caribbean?

Book · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Kenneth Surin Interviewed by Wang Jie on Marxism and Aesthetics

Journal Article Research on Marxist Aesthetics · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

On Producing the Concept of the Concept-Image

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Existing not as a Subject but as a Work of Art: the Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?

Chapter · 2011 Cite

C.L.R. James as Writer on Cricket

Chapter · 2011 Cite

‘On Going ‘Beyond the Pale of the Human’ (ケネススリン人間の境界を越えてゴーイングオン長原豊、エディタ )

Chapter · 2011 Cite

A Genealogy of Comparative Literature in the USA

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Bowlers and Bowling at the 2011 Cricket World Cup

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Revisiting Empire: some Small Reservations and Much Gratitude

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Can there be a notion of Absolute Value?

Chapter · 2011 Cite

The Strange Fate of Property in Neoliberal Times

Chapter · 2011 Cite

Introduction: Theory Now?

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · 2011 Cite

On Producing the Concept of Solidarity

Journal Article Rethinking Marxism · 2010 Cite

A Genealogy of Comparative Literature in the USA

Journal Article · 2010 Cite

The Politics of the South East Asian Smog Crises: a Classic Case of Rentier Capitalism at Work?

Chapter · 2010 Cite

C.L.R. James as writer on cricket

Chapter · 2010 Cite