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I am a political theorist at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). My work is informed by Continental thought and my recent research and publications have focused on various aspects of post-liberal politics. I am currently looking at the pros and cons of 'exodus' and viral politics to explore forms of politics outside the framework of the theory of hegemony endorsed by many post-Marxists. This is part of an ongoing research on the becoming-other of politics.

Here you will find information about my publications and how to download some of my articles. You will also find links to journals, conferences and author resources online as well as information about Taking on the Political, the book series on Continental political thought I edit together with Jeremy Valentine, Alex Thomson and Andrew Schaap for Edinburgh University Press


Insurgencies don’t have a plan —they are the plan. Political performatives and vanishing mediators in 2011 (forthcoming in the journal Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, 2012). Download here.  2011 turned out to be an extraordinary year. The clustering of insurgencies around time and geography gave a political ring to the seasons: commentators spoke of the Arab Spring, the European Summer and the US Fall. TIME magazine even named “the protester” person of the year. Yet many faulted these revolts for their lack of plans and proposals. This criticism misses the point. Insurgencies are about saying “enough!” and refusing to go on as before; they upturn the given and open up possibilities that may or may not prosper. More specifically, insurgent actions are political performatives —participants start to experience what they strive to become— and vanishing mediators, passageways to something other to come rather than standard political practices or policy-making exercises. 



Politics on the Edges of Liberalism. Difference, Populism, Revolution, Agitation

Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Read more about it by clicking Politics on the Edges.

(Korean translation forthcoming with Greenbee in 2011).






Liberalizmin Kiyilarinda Siyaset: Farklilik, Popülizm, Devrim, Ajitasyon

Benjamin Arditi, Metis, Istambul 2010.

Find out more about the Turkish translation by clicking here.






La política en los bordes del liberalismo. Diferencia, populismo, revolución, emancipación

Benjamin Arditi, Gedisa, Barcelona 2010

Para más información sobre la traducción al español haga click aquí.







Democracia post-liberal? El espacio político de las asociaciones

Benjamin Arditi (ed.), Anthropos, Barcelona, 2005

This book discusses Offe's work on organised interest groups and Schmitter's proposal to fund social organizations with public monies in order to assess whether we can speak of a second circuit of politics as a symptom of the emerging post-liberal scenario of democratic politics. You can look at the ToC and read the intro by clicking on Post-Liberal Democracy

 



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