Theorizing contemporary anarchism : solidarity mimesis and radical social change The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully fledged revival and fusion of various left wing social movements with differing agendas. Movements for womens black indigenous LGTB and animal liberation as well as ecological anti nuclear and anti war groups unified against the global capital. Considering the diverse emphases of these movements is there a philosophical framework that could help us understand their nature and their modes of operation in the 21st century This book provides a set of conceptual tools offering a theoretical model of slow social transformation a modality of social change that explicitly differs from the irruptive model of a revolution or a paradigm changing event. Instead it proposes the two concepts of mimetic contagion and solidarity with singularity which allow us to understand what is currently happening in the activist milieu. By bringing together some of todays most important thinkers including Butler Girard Badiou and Sloterdijk this book suggests a philosophical lens to look at the alternative living projects that contemporary left wing activists undertake in practice