Kristin Ross: The Commune Form

Book talk and Lecture by Professor Kristin Ross

The Philosophy Department at the Angewandte, in cooperation with the Department of Art History at Uni Wien, is pleased to present a reading workshop and lecture with Kristin Ross. The workshop and lecture focus on her recent book The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life (Verso, 2025).

In this book, Ross extends her long-standing engagement with the politics of everyday life and her work on the Paris Commune of 1871 by examining contemporary struggles over land — from the ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from pipeline resistance movements in Canada to Soulèvements de la Terre. Drawing on Karl Marx’s description of the Paris Commune as the political form of social emancipation, she explores how these movements reinvent practices of collectively appropriating lived space and time.

To participate in the workshop and access the reading materials, please register via: sophia.rohwetter@univie.ac.at. No registration is required for the lecture.