Richard Gilman-Opalsky: Specters of Revolt at UIS
Channel: Subversion Media
Date: 2017-07-06

In his fourth and latest book:, Specters of Revolt (2016), Gilman-Opalsky explores how the most important thinking on the most pressing social, political, and economic issues is expressed in revolt. The problem is, we are accustomed to thinking of social upheaval and revolt as irrational, violent, and incoherent. To the contrary, Gilman-Opalsky develops a theory of revolt that accounts for its diverse critical content. He argues that the world is haunted by revolt, by the possibility of events that interrupt and disrupt the world, that throw its reality and justice into question. This lecture and open discussion based on Gilman-Opalsky’s new book aims to help us understand recent global uprisings, and to resist ideological rejections of global uprisings as senseless violence. Making use of diverse sources in philosophy, and specific examples from the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., we explore the intellect of insurrection. Richard Gilman-Opalsky is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky is author of four books: Unbounded Publics (2008), Spectacular Capitalism (2011), Precarious Communism (2014), and Specters of Revolt (2016). He is also co-editor of the forthcoming book, Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century, for Temple University Press. 

This lecture was given as part of the ECCE Speakers Series at the University of Illinois-Springfield on April 10, 2017.

Specters of Revolt can be purchased here:

http://repeaterbooks.com/books/spectres-of-revolt-richard-gilaman-opalsky/

For more of Dr. Gilman-Opalsky's work:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Richard%20Gilman-Opalsky&search-alias=books&field-author=Richard%20Gilman-Opalsky&sort=relevancerank