Description
Book SynopsisWe live in a neoliberal regime that works to dismantle social institutions and eradicate forms of collective gathering. Over and against this state of affairs, Collectivity in Struggle revisits a crucial moment in recent history when the formation of collectivity sat at the heart of a radical emancipatory struggle and called for a creative endeavor, both artistic and political. The book examines two projects developed in the 1970s vis-à-vis the Palestinian revolt: Jean-Luc Godard''s cinematic engagement with the Palestinian forces and Jean Genet''s textual enterprise alongside them. Through an inverse reading that uncovers from the seemingly discrete and finalized artworks Godard''s film or Genet's bookthe process of their becoming, Shaul Setter explores the ways in which these projects portray and conceptualize the revolutionary stage of the Palestinian revolt, its abrupt end, and two different modes of prolonging it. Concentrating on their formal experimentation, their potentiality f
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Collectivity in Theory, Collectivity in Action
Chapter 2: Collective Enunciation and its Afterlife: Jean-Luc Godard’s Audiovisual Enterprise with the Palestinians
Chapter 3: The Writerly Revolution: Jean Genet within the Fiction of Palestine
Chapter 4: Writing from Right to Left: Semitic Forms in French Letters
Afterward
