LENIN AND PHILOSOPHYAND OTHER ESSAYS

Today We Are In A Position To Return To Althusser S Work In A New Way, And Make A New Assessment Of It, Writes Frederic Jameson In His Introduction To This New Edition Of Louis Althusser S Lenin And Philosophy. No Figure Loomed Larger Than Althusser In Marxist Thought In The West During The 1960S And 70S The Decades In Which The Soviet Model Was Discredited In The West And New Avenues Opened Up In Marxist Philosophy And Politics. Althusser Stood Out For His Attempt To Define A Marxist Philosophy That Was Rigorous, Scientific, And Revolutionary.

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess

The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world--all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich's Cafe de la Terrasse--a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution--lasted for a century and may still be going on, although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are playing for the world.