Translated from: La methode de l'egalite.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Geneses. Childhood and youth -- Education -- Reading Capital -- Attitude to communist engagement -- May 68, Vincennes and the Gauche Proletarienne -- Turning points -- In The Nights of Labour -- Birth of a method: ways of reading and writing -- Michel Foucault -- Les Revoltes Logiques and the fallout from May 68 -- Cinema, left-wing fiction and popular memory.

Part II. Lines. Heritage and singularity -- Anti-systematic systematicity -- Privileging space, rethinking time -- Excess or event -- The definition of a scene -- Subjectivization in words -- Faculties or possibilities -- Aesthetic revolution, Democratic revolution? -- Philosophical writing and ordinary discourses -- Philosophy in effects -- The rest is up to you -- The laughter in a thought.

Part III. Thresholds. Demystification or deconstruction -- Consensus and stupidity -- Warding off mastery -- Locating the unconscious -- Proletarians then and now -- Equality/inequalities -- The ordering of the common -- Disidentification and subjectivization -- Politics and institutions -- The place of the social -- Newness and Historicity -- The dispersal of images; another art regime? -- Popular cultures.

Part IV. Present tenses. Mapping possibilities -- Figures of the present, modalities of the 'police' -- Ruptures, revolutions, revolts -- A new internationalism? -- Migrant bodies, suffering bodies -- Humans, non-humans: on political ecology -- A world that has lost all sense of reality: how do we inform ourselves? -- The Fait Divers, ordinary lives, investigation -- Precarious and popular arts of living -- The distribution of the sensible and contemporary art -- The future of socialism -- Political economics -- Interviews and dialogue.