Graduate Student, Social and Political Thought
Jan van Eyck Academie, Theory
University of Toronto, Political Science and History
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Martin Breaugh
Jim Vernon Yiching Wu |
About
I am currently a doctoral student in the Social and Political Thought programme at York University (Canada) and a Theory researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Netherlands). My research will examine the problem of "serialization" in the works of "post-Maoist" philosophers, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, especially in regard to questions of representation and radical democracy, political organization and subjectivity, and the influence of the Cultural Revolution on their work.
I am also currently working on a book-length manuscript which details the ideological history of the Indian Maoist (otherwise known as "Naxalite" movement) from 1971-1991 and try to provide an account that examines the ideology that undergirds the different Maoist formations in India with a particular focus on violence, mass organizations and mobilization, electoral politics and democracy.
I have spoken at a number of conferences including, "Rethinking Marxism", "Historical Materialism" and "Deleuze Studies" on issues including the influence of Marx on Deleuze and Guattari's work, theories of political organization in the work of Antonio Gramsci and Alain Badiou, and ideological histories of the Indian Maoist movement. I am also the guest editor of a special issue of the Deleuze Studies journal entitled ."Deleuze and Marx" (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and have published several essays and book chapters.
Research Interests: Intellectual histories of communist and worker movements in post-war Western Europe and South-Asia; contemporary Marxist and Marxian theories of political subjectivity and organization; democratic and radical democratic theory; theories of agency and representation; and post-war continental philosophy.
