Department of Politics and International Relations

"Weaving the Multiversum" by Ana Dinerstein.

Ernst Bloch’s praxis philosophy, the limits of pluriversality and the non-contemporaneity of social struggles against and beyond the abstract universality of capital.

Introduction

In the past four decades, together with workers’ protest and strikes, subjectivities other than the organised working class – including indigenous peoples’ movements – have become stronger and more visible in the global struggle against global capitalism and for social, cognitive and environmental justice. These resistances are not only rejecting the present critical condition of the planet by demanding that the state act with urgency;
these grassroots collectives, movements and community networks are also experimenting with alternative practices and social relations around issues of social reproduction of life amid a new global capitalist crisis deeply affecting the social reproduction of human and non-human life in the planet. Against a background of crisis and lack of horizons, prefiguring alternatives to capitalist social relations and life is no longer an option but
a necessity (Monticelli, 2021). The long-term transformation in the radical agency has awoken global solidarity, but the significant differences among these collective struggles still deserve attention.

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