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A. Kaufman, “The Theology of Consensus,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, May 26, 2015.\n\n4 Compelling versions of this argument are made by Peter D. Thomas, “The Communist Hypothesis and the Question ofOrganization,” Gavin Walker, “The Body ofPolitics: On the Concept ofthe Party,” and Jason E. Smith, “Contemporary Struggles and the Question ofthe Party: A Reply to Gavin Walker,” Theory & Event 16: 4, Winter 2013.\n\n5 For an account of communist desire in terms of the collective desire for collectivity see my The Communist Horizon, London: Verso, 2012.\n\n6 Daniel Bensaïd, “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!” in Lenin Reloaded, eds. Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Žižek, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 148–63, 158.\n\n7 Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, New York: Schocken Books, 1978, 166.\n\n8 But not only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There is a vibrant historical literature on pre-industrial and revolutionary crowds, some of the best of which comes from the British Marxist Historians group. See, for example, George Rudé, Ideology and Popular Protest, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995; and E. J. Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels, New York: Norton, 1959. For a recent engagement with the postrevolutionary US American crowd, see Jason Frank, Constituent Moments, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.\n\n9 José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, New York: Norton, 1932. Original Spanish publication in 1930.\n\n10 As I explain in The Communist Horizon, this is a divisive vision of the people as the rest of us.\n\n11 See Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Af ect, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.\n\n12 Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, 21.\n\n13 Christian Borch provides a history of sociology structured as a history of “crowd semantics,” that is, an analysis of the crowd as a theoretical concept in sociology. See his The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History ofSociology, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.\n\n14 For a more detailed discussion of communicative capitalism see my Publicity’s Secret, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002; Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009; and Blog Theory, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2010.\n\n15 In his account ofthe idea and image ofcrowds in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe, Stefan Jonsson presents the mass as an effect of representation, more particularly of the problem of representing “socially significant passions” and the structuring of the social field via a distinction between representatives and the represented. See his Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image ofthe Massesfrom Revolution to Fascism, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, 26.\n\n16 Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs, New York: Basic Books, 2002.\n\n17 James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, New York: Doubleday, 2004.\n\n18 Surowiecki, 29.\n\n19 Eugene W. Hollland, Nomad Citizenship, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.\n\n20 Kian Kenyon-Dean uses high school band as a compelling counterexample. Unlike the jazz ensemble unified through the music, high school band is typically divided into at least three groups: band geeks that want to play, the resistant disrupters, and the indifferent. See “Social Force,” Graphite, May 26, 2015.\n\n21 Albert-László Barabási, Linked, Philadelphia, PA: Perseus, 2002.\n\n23","previous_page":22,"next_page":24}