Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Who’s Afraid of Revolution?
  • The State or Revolution: Separating False Friends
  • The Dangers of Misusing a Revolution
  • Modeling Revolution 1: Deviating from the Norm
  • Modeling Revolution 2: Changing the Changes in the World
  • Discovering the Outside of Time
  • The Pathway to a New Theory of Revolution
• 2 Regulating Revolution: Nature, the Sovereign, and the Social Contract
  • The Dawning of Revolution
  • Capturing our Natural Freedom
  • The Covenant that Binds
  • Authorizing Control
  • The Voice from Outside the Social Contract
  • Regulationist Patterns of Contemporary Thought
  • Spilling over the Edges of the World: Why Revolution and Nature Cannot Be Regulated
• 3 The Trajectory of the Dialectic: Guiding the Process of State Formation
  • The Appearance of the Dialectic
  • Fascism
  • The Assimilation of Revolution
  • Making Politics Friendly to Revolution
  • Guiding Revolution from behind the Scenes
  • Rearranging the Marxist Trajectory, Part 1: Science versus Organizing Principle
  • Rearranging the Marxist Trajectory, Part 2: What Is the World?
  • Rearranging the Marxist Trajectory, Part 3: New Revolutions
  • Beyond the Dialectical Revolution
• 4 From out of Oblivion: Evental Thought and the Liberated Revolution
  • Breaking with the State
  • Question 1: Grounding Radical Change
  • Question 2: The Potential of the Event
  • Question 3: The Origin of Order
  • Question 4: Connecting Order and Change
  • Breaking up the State, but Holding on to the Pieces
• 5 Dynamic Anarchism’s Revolt: Turning the System against Itself
  • Introduction
  • Systems Theory, Deleuze, Guattari, and Badiou
  • The Nature of Systems
  • Metastates and States
  • The Proper Role of Dyanamism
  • How to Understand Radical Change
  • The Experience of Revolution
• 6 Changing the World, No Matter the Cost: The Practice of Revolution
  • The Wisdom of Revolt
  • Multileveled Revolutions
  • Speeds
  • Adaptation not Hindered by Doctrine
  • Use of Emergent Properties
  • Innovation and Novelty
  • Whole That Undermines an Archetype
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index