A Fractured Lineage
The first issue of Fracture explores some of the following themes: the crisis of Marxism, the severing of politics and social analysis, the notion of politics as rare and exceptional, and research into past political sequences. We introduce this mode of analysis through engagements with the work of Lazarus, Badiou, and others. We follow the work of Asad Haider in interpreting this conceptual field in relation to our own conjuncture. We provide translations to make this discourse more accessible. We build on existing concepts and experiment with new ones.
11 articles
- 01 A Fractured Lineage Over the last decade, a small group of thinkers has sought to pose the question of politics, to formulate a theory of emancipatory politics.
- 02 Afterword to Mistaken Identity (2021) This Afterword was published in 2021 by Verso for the second edition of Mistaken Identity, with the new subtitle: Mass Movements and Racial…
- 03 For Asad In the last few years of his life, Haider was producing a new framework for thinking about politics.
- 04 Introducing the "Late" Lazarus Chronologies du présent was published in 2022, and the book features a series of lectures given by Sylvain Lazarus in 2018.
- 05 Timelines: The Two Arcs (2022) I therefore distinguish two great sequences: the first, which I call the arc of revolution, spanning from the late eighteenth century to…
- 06 May '68: Politics and History (2022) To speak of May ‘68 is not only to speak of the events, but also to speak of the intellectuality of politics.
- 07 Party and Subject A version of this article originally appeared in Cosmonaut Magazine. This version includes an updated introduction and conclusion and…
- 08 Africa in Search of a New Mode of Politics (1994) We are living in a period of political crisis. Emancipatory (revolutionary or progressive) politics rooted in the fundamental masses of…
- 09 Return to Louis Althusser (1983) This article first appeared as an interview with Sylvain Lazarus in issue number 29-30 of Le Perroquet in 1983.
- 10 Althusser and Lazarus: Continuity or Rupture? If every situation is exceptional, as Althusser wrote in 1962, then shouldn’t we incorporate this into how we approach politics?
- 11 Shanghai and Gdańsk Shanghai and Gdańsk compares the Cultural Revolution and the Solidarity movement of the early 1980s in Poland.