From Slavoj Zizek to Michael Hardt, contemporary philosophers are calling for a renewed interest in the relevance of communism. We ask what it means to revisit socialism for a new generation who environmentally and economically live in unpredictable times. Have strong convictions been cast out of modern, democratic and political life and replaced by a new political majority? What are the new systems of thought for the digital generation? And how do we re-imagine art and politics against the fashionable communism of capital?
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