Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author or editor of eleven books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies and The Com­mun­ist Hori­zon (Verso, Octo­ber 2012).
Occupy Wall Street and the Left

Occupy Wall Street and the Left

by | 24 Jan 2012 |

Occupy Wall Street, for all its talk of horizontality, autonomy, and decentralized process, is recentering the economy, engaging in class warfare without naming the working class as one of two great hostile forces but instead by presenting capitalism as a wrong...

Consensus

Consensus

by | 13 Dec 2011 |

I have been critical of the consensus-based, horizontal practices associated with contemporary anarchism. My criticism has been based on what I've viewed as an underlying individualism--no one has the right to speak for any other, each person must speak for...