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On the Possibilities for Future communisms: Rethinking Communism as Biocommunism

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  • Philip Hojme
Philip Hojme
Ph.D. Candidate GSSR, IFiS, PAN, Poland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2023.32.005
Published June 6, 2023

Keywords:

Agamben, Biocommunism, Butler, the Kyoto School, Marx
How to Cite
Hojme, P. . (2023). On the Possibilities for Future communisms: Rethinking Communism as Biocommunism. Bajo Palabra, (32), 95–108. https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2023.32.005 (Original work published June 5, 2023)

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Abstract

This essay rethinks the concept of biocommunism by rearticulating it via a sensitivity towards individual suffering rather than the human species as a whole. The essay is divided into three parts. The first part outlines Marx’s concept of alienation because of the central role that the fourth kind of alienation plays in Dyer-Witheford’s original conception of biocommunism. The second part briefly elaborates on the discussion of species in the Kyoto School. These two parts lead to the third part, where a novel interpretation of biocommunism is outlined, focusing on individual suffering rather than the human species.

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