This article seeks to understand the emotional dynamics surrounding the image of the Paris Commune in connection with its mobilization through contemporary movements of struggle sharing, as their common point, a rejection of neo-liberal capitalism. More precisely, this will involve examining how the affect of joy – understood in Spinoza’s terms as a passion which contributes to increasing the power of action – plays a determining role in the Commune’s discursive deployment in the Invisible Committee’s writings.
Fevry, S. (2019). The joyful power of activist memory: The radiant image of the Commune in the Invisible Committee’s writings. Memory Studies, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698018811988 (Original work published 2019)