Donald R. Harter 39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Jodi Dean

Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of the Humanities and Social sciences

Department of Political Science

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS)

Geneva, NY 14456

phone315 781 3425

Professional Experience

2013-Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, HWS

2012-Director, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, HWS

2007Professor, Political Science, HWS

1999Associate Professor, Political Science, HWS

1994Assistant Professor, Political Science, HWS

1992 Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Texas at San Antonio

1988Preceptor, Introduction to Contemporary Civilization, Columbia College

Education

1992Ph.D.Columbia University, Political Science

1989M.Phil.Columbia University, Political Science

1987M.A. Columbia University, Political Science

1984B.A. Princeton University, History, cum laude

Scholarship

Books

2016.Crowds and Party (Verso).

2012.The Communist Horizon (Verso).

Spanish translation from Edicions Bellaterra (2013). Turkish translation fromYapi

Kredi Yayinlari (2013). Serbian translation from Centar za medije I komunikacije

2014).

2010.Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive (Polity).

2009.Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Duke University Press).

2006.Žižek’s Politics (Routledge).

2002.Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy(Cornell University Press).

1998.Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace (Cornell

University Press). One of theVillage Voice’sbest 25 books of 1998.

1996.Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism After Identity Politics (University of California Press).

Journal Editor

2008-2013.Co-editor, Theory & Event

Series Editor

2013-Co-editor, Digital Barricades, Pluto Press

Edited Volumes

2006.Reformatting Politics: Information Networks and Global Civil Society, co-edited with Jon Anderson and Geert Lovink (Routledge).

2004.Empire’s New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri, co-edited with Paul A. Passavant (Routledge).

2000.Cultural Studies and Political Theory (Cornell University Press).

1997.Feminism and the New Democracy: Resiting the Political(Sage).

Edited Symposia

2014.“Communist Currents,” co-edited with Bruno Bosteels, South Atlantic Quarterly

113: 4.Includes contributions from Banu Bargu, Joshua Clover, James Martel,

Sandro Mezzadra, Jordana Rosenberg, Alberto Toscano, and others.

2011.“Occupy Wall Street,” co-edited with Davide Panagia and James Martel, Special

Supplement to Theory & Event 14.4. Includes contributions from Franco Berardi,

WendyBrown, William Connolly, McKenzie Wark and others.

2007.“On Iris Marion Young,” Constellations 14, 2. Includes contributions from Rainer

Forst, Nadia Urbanati, Cass Sunstein, Laurel Weldon, and Jeffrey Isaac.

2005.“The Election of 2004,” co-edited with Thomas Dumm, Theory Event8.2.

Includes contributions from Ivan Ascher, Lauren Berlant, Juan Cole, Saskia

Sassen, and others.

1999.“Virtually Regulated,” Signs 24, 4. Includes contributions from Lee Quinby and

Christina Sharpe.

1997.“Democratizing Technology/Technologizing Democracy,” co-edited with Hubertus Buchstein, Constellations 4, 2. Includes contributions from Benjamin Barber, Lee Quinby, and Hubertus Buchstein.

Articles

2016.“Big Data: Accumulation and Enclosure,” Theory & Event 19, 3.

2016.“The Anamorphic Politics of Climate Change,” efflux 69 (Jan.)

2015.“The Party and Communist Solidarity,” Rethinking Marxism 27, 3.

2015.“Red, Black, and Green,” Rethinking Marxism 27, 3 (response to critics).

2014.“Enclosing the Subject,” Political Theory. Online first: 0090591714560377. Print:

44, 3 (June 2016): 363-393.

2014. “Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle,” Spheres: journal for digital

cultures, 1 (Nov.).

class-struggle/

2014.“The Question of Organization,” South Atlantic Quarterly 113, 4 (Fall).

2014.“Commune, Party, State,” Viewpoint Magazine, 4.

2013.“Complexity as capture: neoliberalism and the loop of drive,” New Formations

80/81 (Aug.).

2013.“Society doesn’t exist,” First Monday 18, 3-4 (March).

2013.“Occupy Wall Street: After the Anarchist Moment,” Socialist Register 49.

2012.“Still Dancing: drive as a category of political theory,” The International Journal of Žižek Studies 6.1.

2012.“Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Representation,” co-authored with Jason Jones, Chto Delat?//What Is To Be Done?10, 34 (March).

2012.“A Movement Without Demands?” co-authored with Marco Deseriis, Possible Futures (Jan.). Possible Futures is a digital forum published by the Social Science Research Council.

2011.“Claiming Division, Naming a Wrong,” Theory & Event 14.2.

2011.“Know It All,” Open 22.

2011.“Class War,” (symposium contribution) Perspectives on Politics 9, 3.

2010.“Drive as the Structure of Biopolitics,” Krisis 2010: 2.

2010.“Theory Survey or Survey Theory?” (symposium contribution)PS: Political Science and Politics 43, 2 (April).

2010.“The Real Internet,” The International Journal of Žižek Studies, 14, 1.

2010.“Affective Networks,” MediaTropes II, 2: 19-44. Available at

2009.“Politics without Politics,” Parallax 15, 3: 20-36. Republished in Reading Ranciere (Continuum 2011).

2009.“Again and Again and Again: Real Materialism” (review essay), Theory Event

12.1.

2008.“Enjoying Neoliberalism,” Cultural Politics 4, 1 (March): 47-72.

2007.“The Democratic Deadlock,” Theory Event 10.4.

2007.“Why Žižek for Political Theory?” International Journal of Žižek Studies 1, 1.

Available at studies.org/index.php/ijzs/issue/view/2.

2007.“The Object Next Door,” Review essay on Kenneth Reinhard, Eric Santner, and

Slavoj Žižek, The Neighbor, Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More, and

Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View, Political Theory 35, 3: 371-378.

2007.“Anticipating Homeland Security,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

4, 2 (June): 205-210.

2006.“Blogging Theory,” Bad Subjects 95.

2005.“A Politics of Avoidance: The Limits of Weak Ontology,” The Hedgehog Review

7, 2 (Summer): 55-65.

2005.“Evil’s Political Habitats,” Theory Event8.2. Republished in Redescriptions:

Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History 9 (2005).

2005.“Žižek against Democracy,” Law, Culture, and Humanities1, 2: 154-177.

2005.“Enemies Imaginary and Symbolic,” (Review Essay), Philosophy and Social Criticism 31, 4 (June): 499-509.

2005.“Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics,” Cultural Politics 1, 1: 51-74.

2004.“Secrecy Since September 11th,” Interventions 6, 3: 362-380.

2004.“Žižek on Law,” Law and Critique 15: 1-24.

2003.“Why the Net is Not a Public Sphere,” Constellations 10, 1. This is a substantially

revised version of the IWM Working Paper listed below.

2002.“Representation and the Event,” co-authored with Paul A. Passavant, Theory Event 5.4

2002.“Celebrity’s Drive,” Chair et Metal (Metal and Flesh), (Fall).Adapted from chapter four of Publicity’s Secret.

2001.“Publicity’s Secret,” Political Theory 29, 5 (Oct.): 616-642.

2001.“Communicative Capitalism: Why the Net is Not the Public Sphere,” IWM Working Paper No. 9/2001, Vienna.

2001.“Laws and Societies,” co-authored with Paul A. Passavant, Constellations 8, 3 (Sept).

2001.“From Technocracy to Technoculture,” Theory Event 5.2.

2001.“Cybersalons and Civil Society: Rethinking the Public Sphere in Transnational

Technoculture,” Public Culture13, 2 (May). Translated and published in Czech in 2005.

2001.“Feminism and Technoculture,” The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 23,1.

2000.“Theorizing Conspiracy Theory,” Theory Event 4.3.

1999.“Virtual Fears,” Signs 24, 4 (Summer).

1999.“Making (It) Public,” Constellations 6, 2.

1998.“Interview with Drucilla Cornell: Thinking Through the Imaginary Domain,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 24, 2-3 (Apr.).

1997.“The Truth is Out There: Aliens and the Fugitivity of Postmodern Truth,” Camera Obscura40, 41.

1997.“Feminist Solidarity, Reflective Solidarity,” Women and Politics 18, 4.

1997.“The Familiarity of Strangeness,” Theory Event 1. 2.

1997.“Virtually Citizens,” Constellations 4, 2.

1995.“Reflective Solidarity,” Constellations 2, 1.

1994.“Beyond the Equality/Difference Dilemma,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 20, 1-2 This essay also appeared as “Jenseits des Dilemmas von Gleichheit und Differenz,” in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 2 (1994).

1994.“From Sphere to Boundary: Sexual Harassment, Identity and the Shift in Privacy,” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 6, 2.

1992.“Including Women: The Consequences and Side Effects of Feminist Critiques of CivilSociety,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 18, 3-4.Published also as “La Société civile et la critique féministe,” M (Mensuel, Marxisme, Mouvement) 53-54 (1992).

Book Chapters

2016.“Dual Power Redux,” An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army, Fredric Jameson, ed. Slavoj Žižek (Verso).

2015.“Apps and Drive,” Theories of the Mobile Internet, eds. Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, and Thom Swiss (Routledge).

2015.“Affect and Drive,” Networked Affect, eds. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, and Michael Petit (MIT Press).

2014.“Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics,” Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader, eds. Andrew Pendakis, Jeff Diamanti, Nicholas Brown, Josh Robinson, and Imre Szeman (London: Bloomsbury, 2014).

2014.“Complexity as Capture: Neoliberalism and the Loop of Drive,” Capital at the Brink, eds. Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan (Open Humanities Press).

2014.“After Post-Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism,” The Post-Political and Its Discontents, eds. Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw (Edinburgh University Press).

2014.“Sovereignty of the People,” Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today, eds. Alexandrios Kioupkiolis and Giorgos Katsamebekis (Surrey, England: Ashgate).

2014.“We Can’t Afford to be Realists: A Conversation,” with Mark Fisher, “Reading Capitalist Realism, eds. Alison Shonkwiler and Leigh Claire La Berge (University of Iowa Press).

2014.“Still Dancing: Drive as a Category of Political Economy,” States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios, eds. Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi, and Slavoj Žižek (Surrey, England: Ashgate).

2014.“The Real Internet,” Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader, ed. Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis (Palgrave Macmillan).

2014.“Communism and the Digital Commons,” Communism in the 21st Century, ed. Shannon Brincat (Praeger).

2014.“Communicative Capitalism: This is What Democracy Looks Like,” Communication and the Economy, eds. Joshua S. Hanan & Mark Hayward (Peter Lang).

2013.“Communist Desire,” The Idea of Communism 2, ed.Slavoj Žižek (Verso).

2012.“Whatever Blogging,” Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory,

eds.Trebor Scholz (Routledge).

2011.“Claiming Division, Naming a Wrong,” Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America,

eds. Astra Taylor and Keith Gessen (Verso).

2011.“Post-politik? Nein, danke!” Nach Dem Ende Der Politik, eds and trans. Konrad

Becker and Martin Wasserman (Vienna: Löcker).

2011.“The Communist Horizon,” On Horizons: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, eds. Maria Hlavajova, Simon Sheikh and Jill Winder (Rotterdam: BAK).

2011.“The Real Double,” It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards: on the

work of Johan Grimonprez,” published by Hatje Kantz and others, Belgium.

2011.“Politics without Politics,” Reading Ranciere, eds. Paul Bowan and Richard Stamp (Continuum).

2008.“Change of Address: Butler’s ethics at sovereignty’s deadlock,” Judith Butler’s

Precarious Politics,eds. Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers (Routledge).

2007.“Fascism, Stalinism, and the Organization of Enjoyment,” Did Somebody Say

Ideology: On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences, eds. Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner

(Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

2007.“Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical Democracy,” The Internet and Radical Democracy: Interrogating Theory and Practice, eds. Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera (Palgrave Macmillan).

2006.“Political Theory and Cultural Studies,” Oxford Handbook of Political Theory,

eds. John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Philips (OxfordUniversity Press).

2006.“Secrets and Drive,” Sex, Breath, and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-

Feminist Era, ed. Ellen Mortensen (Lexington Books).

2004.“The Networked Empire: communicative capitalism and the hope for politics,”

Empire’s New Clothes, eds. Paul A. Passavant and Jodi Dean (Routledge).

2004.“Representation and the Event,”co-authored with Paul A.Passavant, Empire’s New Clothes, eds. Paul A. Passavant and Jodi Dean (Routledge).

2004.“Making (It) Public,” Public Affairs: Politics in an Age of Sex Scandals, eds. Paul

Apostolidis and Juliette Williams (Duke University Press).

2003.“Alien Doubts: Reading abduction narratives post-apocalyptically,” UFOReligions, ed. Christopher Partridge (Routledge).

2002.“Uncertainty, Conspiracy, Abduction,” Reality Bytes, ed. James Friedman

(Rutgers University Press).

2002.“If Anything Is Possible,” Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, ed. Peter Knight (New York University Press).

2001.“Civil Society in the Information Age: Beyond the Public Sphere,” Critical Theory, eds. Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Jaimey Fisher (Berghahn Books).

2000.“Community,” Unspun: The Web, Language, and Culture, ed. Thomas Swiss (New York University Press).

2000.“Webs of Conspiracy,” The World Wide Web: Magic, Metaphor, and Power, eds Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss (Routledge).

2000.“At an Interface: Political Theory and Cultural Studies,” Cultural Studies and Political Theory, ed. Jodi Dean (Cornell University Press).

2000.“Declarations of Independence,” Cultural Studies and Political Theory, ed. Jodi

Dean (Cornell University Press).

1997.“Siting/Citing/Sighting the New Democracy,” Feminism and the New Democracy,

ed. Jodi Dean (Sage).

1997.“The Reflective Solidarity of Democratic Feminism,” Feminism and the New Democracy, ed. Jodi Dean (Sage).

1996.“Coming Out as an Alien: Feminists, UFOs, and the ‘Oprah Effect,’” “Good Girls”/”Bad Girls:” Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties, eds. Donna Perry and Nan Bauer Maglin (Rutgers University Press).

1996.“Civil Society: Beyond the Public Sphere,” The Handbook of Critical Theory, ed.

David Rasmussen (Basil Blackwell).

1995.“Discourse in Different Voices,” Feminists Read Habermas, ed. Johanna Meehan

(Routledge).

interviews(selected)

2014.“Glitches in Orality and the Stakes of Semantics: A conversation with Jodi Dean,” cmagazine 120 (Winter).

2013.“Repolicizing the Left: An Interview with Jodi Dean,” The Minnesota Review 81.

2013.“Division and Desire: Jodi Dean discusses The Communist Horizon, Socialism

and Democracy, 27, 2 (April).

2012.“Endlich wieder ‘wir’ sagen: Interview with Jodi Dean,” Polar 13 (Fall).

2012.“Konzentration statt Dispersion,” Interview with Jodi Dean, Springerin 3/13

(July). An overview of the issue is available at

2012.“Critical Media Studies in Times of Communicative Capitalism: An Interview with Jodi Dean,” Arena 4, 1 (June). Available at

2012Unlike Us #2: Interview with Jodi Dean, Amsterdam (Mar.). Available at

2009.“I speak like a ten-year old with strange jargon attached to it: an interview with Jodi Dean,” Krisis 2009:2. Available at

presentations(selected)

2016

“The Actuality of Revolution,” Radical Critical Theory Circle, Nisyros, Greece, June.

“Crowds and Party,” Experimental Critical Theory Symposium, UCLA (May).

Keynote: “A View from the Side: The Natural History Museum,” Creativity, Cognition, Critique: A 50th Anniversary Arts and Humanities Symposium, UC Irvine, (May). Invited.

“The Natural History Museum,” Experimental Critical Theory Seminar, UCLA (May). Invited.

“Crowds and Party,” Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (May). Invited.

“Between Crowds and Parties: Digital Communism or Techopopulism,” Cyberparty: Popular Politics in Digital Times, Centre for Digital Culture, Kings College London, Plenary (May). Invited.

“The Passional Dynamics of the Communist Party,” First Annual Kennedy Lecture, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania (Apr.). Invited.

“Crowds and Party,” in conversation with Paolo Gerbaudo, Institute for Contemporary Art, London (Mar.). Invited.

“Crowds and Party,” Day-long workshop and discussion, University of Brighton (Mar.) Invited.

“Crowds and Party,” Book launch, Birkbeck College, University of London (Mar.).

“Crowds and Party,” Neoliberalism Seminar, Hunter College, NYC (Feb.). Invited.

“The State in Stateless Democracy,” New World Summit: Stateless Democracy, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Jan.). Invited.

2015

“The Other Space of the Communist Party,” Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Universalism, Politics,” Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut (Dec.). Invited.

“Networked Communication and the Inadequacy of Democracy,” panel discussion on The Network, Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art: Public Art and the Commons, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Nov.). Invited.

Keynote: “A View from the Side: The Natural History Museum,” Cultural Critique Symposium: The State of Things,” University of Minnesota (Oct.). Invited.

“The Passional Dynamics of the Communist Party,” Political Theory Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC (Oct.). Invited.

“Exhibiting Division, Seizing the State: “The Natural History Museum,” Anthro-Obscene, Situated Ecologies Conference, Stockholm (Sept.) Invited.

“The Passional Dynamics of the Communist Party” American Political Science Annual Meeting, San Francisco (Sept).

“Crowds and Party,” Democracy Rising, GCAS First World Conference, Athens (July). Invited.

“Rosa Luxemburg: Symptom or Fetish?” Memorial For(u)ms—Histories of Possibility, Symposium, Berlin (July). Invited.

“Lessons from Blockadia,” Discussion: Capitalism v. Ecology, Beit Zatoun, Toronto (June). Invited.

“The Communist Horizon,” Launch of publication of Serbian translation of The Communist Horizon, Faculty of Media and Communication, Belgrade (June).Invited.

“The Challenge of Communist Theory Today: Response to Critics,” Critical Theory Course, Interuniversity Centre, Dubrovnik (June).

“If You Aren’t Against Us, You’re With Us,” Conference: The Crack in the Musem of History, Former West Public Editorial Meeting, Budapest (May). Invited.

“Big Data,” School of Media, Film and Music, Sussex University, Brighton (May). Invited.

“Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle,” Digital Barricades Book Launch, Friends Meeting House, London (May). Invited.

“Militant Collectivity,” Conference: Political Violence and Militant Aesthetics After Socialism, Yale University (Apr.) Invited.

“The Party as Other Space,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas (Apr.).

“The Passional Dynamics of the Communist Party,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas (Apr.).

Keynote: “The Passional Dynamics of the Communist Party,” Conference: Enthusiasm for Revolution,” Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida, Gainesville (Mar.). Invited.

“Comments on Maria Aristodemou’s Law, Psychoanalysis, Society,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (Mar.).

2014

“Communicative Capitalism and the Challenge for the Left,” Conference on Transformation of Democracy, Democratic Transformation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin (Nov.) Invited.

“Enclosing the Subject,” Political Theory Workshop, Columbia University (Nov.) Invited.

“Between Crowd and Party,” Politics Talk, New School for Social Research (Oct.) Invited.

“Crowds and Publics,” Art and Public Life, The Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago (Oct.) Invited.

“A New Radical Subject?” Keynote discussion with Keti Chukhrov and Gerald Raunig, Conference: No Radical Art Actions are going to help here … , Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia (Sept.) Invited.

“Enclosing the Subject,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (Sept.).

“Debt and Subjectivity,” Conference on The Debt Drive, Amsterdam (June). Invited.

“The Communist Horizon,” MAMA (multimedia institute and cultural center), Zagreb (June). Invited.

“Communist Critical Theory,” Critical Theory Course, Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik (June).

“Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle,” Keynote. Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON (May). Invited.