Giacomo Bianchino
Student Fellow
Giacomo Bianchino is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His work centers on the relationship between poetry and politics, particularly in the modernist attempts to construct a new “epic” poem. He is also a labor organizer, a freelance journalist and a writer.
Participating Years
2023–2024
The State. Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois?
In imagining and forging the future, there is much talk of the state, but often with little detail. What should public goods consist of, and how might they be organized? Can the need for coercion (e.g., to pay taxes for public goods) be realized without the carceral and its underlying apparatuses of organized violence? What forms of sovereignty and its delegation (above or below) are possible and desirable?