The rest and the West

ASERI, as part of the ASERIncontra review , is pleased to present the volume

The rest and the West
For the critique of multipolarity

by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
Meltemi Editore

Thursday 20 November 2025, 5.30 p.m.
in ASERI, Via San Vittore 18, MILAN

live streaming is also planned

Introduces:
Damiano Palano, ASERI Director

Speakers:
Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Bologna

Carlotta Cossutta, Researcher in Political Philosophy, University of Milan

 

The book:
At the end of the pandemic, the world witnessed an unprecedented intensification of geopolitical conflicts, which have become a real battleground also to decide the fate of globalization.
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson propose, in fact, a reading of these conflicts no longer as a simple expression of rivalry between powers, but as the outcome of the growing centrality of war within the dynamics of global capitalism. In an era marked by increasingly evident inequalities and disparities, the analysis proposed by the authors therefore sheds light on a world in which conflict is now considered a structural component of globalization.
The Rest and the West shows how contemporary capitalism is reshaping the geopolitical and social landscape globally, turning war and violence into essential tools for its functioning.
 

The author:
Sandro Mezzadra teaches Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna; he is an adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. In recent years he has worked on the relationships between global processes, migration and capitalism, on postcolonial critique and on contemporary capitalism. He participated in the "workerist" debate and was one of the founders of the www.euronomade.info site . Among his books: Right to escape. Migrations, citizenship, globalization (2006);  The postcolonial condition. History and politics in the global present (2008);  In Marxian construction sites. The Subject and His Production (2014);  A world to be earned. For a political theory of the present (2020). With Brett Neilson he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013), The Politics of Operations. Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (2019) and The West and the Rest. Capital and Power in a Multipolar World (2024).

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live streaming is also planned

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