Eugene W. Holland: Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike (2011)

Nomad Citizenship argues for transforming our institutions and practices of citizenship and markets in order to release society from dependence on the state and capital. It changes Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of nomadology into a utopian project with immediate practical implications, developing ideas of a nonlinear Marxism and of the slow-motion general strike.

Responding to the challenge of creating philosophical concepts with concrete applications, Eugene W. Holland looks outside the state to analyze contemporary political and economic development using the ideas of nomad citizenship and free-market communism. Holland’s nomadology seeks to displace capital-controlled free markets with truly free markets. Its goal is to rescue market exchange, not perpetuate capitalism—to enable noncapitalist markets to coordinate socialized production on a global scale and, with an eye to the common good, to liberate them from capitalist control.

In suggesting the slow-motion general strike, Holland aims to transform citizenship: to renew, enrich, and invigorate it by supplanting the monopoly of state citizenship with plural nomad citizenships. In the process, he offers critiques of both the Clinton and Bush regimes in the broader context of critiques of the social contract, the labor contract, and the form of the state itself.

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2011
ISBN 0816666121, 9780816666126
344 pages

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Praktyka Teoretyczna, No. 4: Wokół Rzeczy-pospolitej (2011) [Polish]

Nowy numer Praktyki Teoretycznej poświęcony dyskusji nad ostatnią książką Michaela Hardta i Antonia Negriego – 216 stron poważnej i wciągającej lektury.

Wśród jego autorek i autorów znaleźli się m.in. Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, David Harvey, Ewa Majewska, Joanna Bednarek, Mateusz Janik, Gigi Roggero, Anna Curcio, Gerald Raunig, Michał Kozłowski i Sandro Mezzadra.

Editors of the issue: Piotr Juskowiak, Krystian Szadkowski, Maciej Szlinder
Publisher: Międzywydziałowa „Pracownia Pytań Granicznych” UAM, Poznań, December 2011
ISSN: 2081-8130
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Rethinking Marxism 22-3: Special Issue on the Common and the Forms of the Commune (2010)

“Operating within and beyond each of the offerings contained in the pages [of this special issue] is a profound play on precisely the question posed: What is the operative notion of the common today? Even the singularity of that question’s basic assumption is challenged by the scope of these inquiries for, indeed, a paradox begins to emerge when we consider them as a collection, one might even say as a common production of knowledge: recognition that the very foundation of a concept of the common—its particularity—may well be articulated in a multiplicity of ways. That is to say, can postmodernity—or whatever we wish to designate our present condition—tolerate a single “operative notion” of the common, or does it rather demand a constellation of understandings that contribute simultaneously to our experience of the common and to its neoliberal other, the promotion of individuation?” (from Introduction)

Contributions by Anna Curcio & Ceren Özselçuk, Jack Amariglio, Michael Hardt, Gigi Roggero, Aras Özgün, 16beaver group, Antonio Callari & David F. Ruccio, Deborah Jenson, Federico Luisetti, S. Charusheela, Kenneth Surin, Kathi Weeks, Anna Curcio, Yahya M. Madra & Ceren Özselçuk, Alvaro Reyes.

With Introduction by Joseph Childers
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society Volume 22 Issue 3
ISSN: 0893-5696

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