Edinburgh University Press published a book "Revolutionaries and Global Politics". Our colleague Martin Švantner (Department of Philosophy) contributed to this book with the chapter "Revolutionary Symbol Has No Power: Semiotic Reading of Hybridity". Alexander Ščerbak, a graduate of the Electronic Culture and Semiotics study programme contributed to one of the texts.
The texts were created on the basis of the research grant Primus/17/HUM/24 Hybrid revolutionary actors in international politics.
This is a book about discontents of the global order. Building on the innovative reading of ISIS as an international revolutionary actor, it explores the movement’s everyday political practices and confronts them with other global revolutionaries to arrive at a novel understanding of revolutionary agency in global politics. Benefiting in particular from Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of war machine and understanding of hybridity, the book shows how modern revolutionaries seek to disrupt the existing Westphalian order of modern states, yet are inevitably entangled with it and even reproduce in their conduct its founding principles. Including discussions on movements ranging from the Bolsheviks and Palestinian revolutionary groups to Khomeinists, to insurgents in Iraq and ISIS, the book pushes forward debates informed by critical social theory of revolution, violence, resistance and global order.
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