KARŞILAŞMA MATERYALİZMİ: BOŞLUKTA(N) DOĞAN RADİKAL POLİTİKA
ALEATORY MATERIALISM: THE RADICAL POLITICS TO BE BORN IN/FROM VOID

Summary/Abstract: In this study, moving from the French philosopher Louis Althusser’s posthumously published texts The Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter and Machiavelli and Us, we will try to reflect on the potentialities of a radical politics in the current conjuncture. Proposing that these texts correspond to a new and unexpected position in Althusser's philosophical pursuit and in his effort to reflect on the conditions of political practice, we will be looking for ways to improve this position towards an “aleatory politics” by means of thinking not only of Althusser but also with and in spite of him. In such a conjuncture in which authoritarian leaders and regimes are on the rise in different parts of the world in parallel with the decline of the left politics and the catastrophe created by the global pandemic articulated with the destructiveness of neo-liberalism, we will examine the potentialities of Althusser's new position to reconsider a radical politics outside the status quo. In this way, we will also have the opportunity to rethink Althusser as an up-to-date philosophical figure.

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