Collected Work

For over 25 years, the CPCP has convened scholars and organizers committed to producing knowledge for collective liberation. The writings collected here showcase the breadth, rigor, and political imagination of CPCP fellows’ work, from critical analysis to strategies for social change.

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Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle See All

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle Mobility: Transit and Transformation Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism The State. Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois? Revolutionary Arts Agrarian Questions, Urban Connections, and Planetary Possibilities: Fire, Water, Earth and Air The Agrarian Question Today Mobilizations and Migrations Insurgent Solidarities Consciousness and Revolution II Consciousness and Revolution Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence After Debt: New Forms of Dependency, Obligation, Risk, and Credit Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture Labor/Crisis/Protest

Seriality and Social Change

Peter Hitchcock More

From Karl Marx’s decision to publish Capital in serial form to contemporary adaptations in manga and graphic novels, this book examines how serialization both democratizes knowledge and shapes the very process of social transformation. This book delves into the paradox of the serial: while it can expand access to radical thought, it can also impose structural limits, slowing or containing the revolutionary potential it seeks to unleash. Does seriality mirror the mechanics of capitalism, or can it be a tool for subverting them? Engaging with this question across genres and forms, Seriality and Social Change invites readers to rethink how revolution is told and imagined over time.

Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World

Miriam Ticktin More

In this book, Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that consistently appears as a moral good actually ends up creating harm for so many. Ticktin shows how innocence structures political relationships, focusing on individual victims and saviors, while foreclosing forms of collective responsibility. Ultimately, she wants to understand what makes the discourse around innocence so powerful and compelling, while showing that alternative political forms already exist.