... biopolitics fluidity stickiness jianghu chundian ...

... when the Communist Party of China encountered the rural jianghu spirit. This is the story of how this encounter with these rural bandits changed the party forever. It offered the beginnings of a partisan tradition that would become the leitmotif of Maoism and the beginnings of the “signification...

....” All the while, story upon story builds into a picture of technologies of affect and traces the channeling, intensification, and dissipation of affective energy in relation to the question of the political. biopolitics fluidity stickiness jianghu chundian There is magic in money...

..., story upon story builds into a picture of technologies of affect and traces the channeling, intensification, and dissipation of affective energy in relation to the question of the political. biopolitics fluidity stickiness jianghu chundian ...

... the grotesque coinage of ancient Gauls, and on to the coins of the early Chinese revolutionary Soviet, this chapter maps the journey of affective energy through the material markers that it leaves in its wake. In the case of the Chinese revolution, however, these marked coins also take us back to the jianghu...

... of China encountered the rural jianghu spirit. This is the story of how this encounter with these rural bandits changed the party forever. It offered the beginnings of a partisan tradition that would become the leitmotif of Maoism and the beginnings of the “signification of Marxism.” More generally...

... relied on the telluric spirit, and, lastly, how both helped transform this telluric spirit into a biopolitical form of governance that differed fundamentally from the jianghu spirit and from liberalism, neoliberalism, and Soviet-style socialism. class struggle gift economy work unit guanxi...