The Cut of the Generic: An Interview with Jodi Dean

The acclaimed political philosopher and media theorist Jodi Dean is the author of numerous monographs, including Crowds and Party, The Communist Horizon, Blog Theory, and Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies. Taking her most recent work on the theory of the comrade as its point of departure, this interview addresses Dean’s critique of enclosure and the individual form; the politics of genericity and fungibility; the limits of post-representationalism; and the futures of the political in an age of anthropogenic climate change.