Southwest Humanities is very proud and pleased to announce that another book we have indexed has now been published. Revolutions of Capitalism: The Politics of the Event by Maurizio Lazzarato was published by Duke University Press on 7 April 2026. Revolutions of Capitalism (expertly translated by Brian Whitener and Geo Maher) is a theoretically ambitious work that rethinks the nature of contemporary capitalism by shifting attention away from traditional Marxist emphases on labor and value. Drawing on a wide range of thinkers, including Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Lazzarato argues that capitalism today operates through the capture and organization of social cooperation and the management of what he calls “the possible.” Central to this framework is the concept of “noo-politics,” a form of power that acts at a distance on minds by shaping attention, memory, and perception, thereby constraining what individuals and societies can imagine or create.

Against this pervasive system of control, the book foregrounds the political importance of the “event”—moments of rupture that open up new possibilities and challenge the idea that there is only one viable social or economic order. Lazzarato interprets contemporary social movements as struggles over not just resources or representation, but in relation to the very production of possible futures, seeking to break free from capitalism’s tendency to limit and channel creativity into predetermined forms. By reframing capitalism as a system that governs subjectivity, communication, and potentiality itself, the book makes a significant contribution to political theory, critical theory, and contemporary philosophy. It offers scholars and activists alike a conceptual toolkit for understanding both the subtle mechanisms of control in late capitalism and the transformative possibilities of resistance beyond it.

For more information about this excellent new title, please see the publisher’s website here.