Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia.
"In Fugitive Politics, Boggs returns to his days as a campus radical, yolking together two influential yet seemingly disparate narratives in order to fashion a fugitive politics repurposed to challenge the misplaced ontological confidence of much of today's academic left. In so doing he proves that today's algorithmic understanding of politics often serves as an ontological block to capturing the analogue experience of political repression that Boggs and his contemporaries lived on a daily basis. Blending the prehensive nature of political activism with his pathfinding theoretical work on Gramsci, Lenin, and Marx, and his prescient forays into ecosocialism, Boggs creates new zones of contestation, sites of scholarly outlawry, enclaves of political insurgency and fugitive deploys that are equipped to challenge the arc of historical struggle that could not be anticipated by the political sages of yesteryear. This book is vintage Boggs, fearless and forward-looking, at the cutting edge of the political discourse of the day, a beacon of light in these dark times."
Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Chapman University, USA