The Molecular Subject(s) of Revolution

Matthew Lowery
8 min readDec 6, 2020

Just a short post here today. I wanted to highlight a few really interesting sections of Richard Gilman-Opalsky’s excellent book ‘Specters of Revolt‘ and to expand on them with some further thoughts, particularly about the revolutionary subject(s), molecularity, and joyful rebellion. It’s been a bit of a revelation reading it, I have to say, though its exact ideological tenor I found a little ambiguous. On the one hand…

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Matthew Lowery

PhD student. Interests in critical theory, radical democracy, new materialism, ideology, science fiction, and extreme metal.