Sublime

Fleeting and permanent, serious and ridiculous, sincere and ironic, always undermining their own authority, manifestos are unstable texts in the extreme.

As any number of radical theorists from Brecht through to Foucault and Badiou have maintained, emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.

fixation on the executive

Any manifesto worth reading demands the impossible.

politics but Federal

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

an avowed partisan of the underclass, the marginalized, the poor.