Contents

Foreword

Peter Marcuse

Introduction

Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson

SECTION ONE: THE EROS EFFECT

1.Remembering May ’68: An Interview with George Katsiaficas

AK Thompson

2.Eros and Revolution

George Katsiaficas

3.From Marcuse’s “Political Eros” to the Eros Effect: A Current Statement

George Katsiaficas

SECTION TWO: EXTENSIONS AND ELABORATIONS

4.Eros in a One-Dimensional Society: Katsiaficas, Marcuse, and Me

Arnold L. Farr

5.Rethinking the Eros Effect: Sentience, Reality, and Emanation

Jason Del Gandio

6.Revolt as Reason, Reason as Revolt: On the Praxis of Philosophy from Below

Richard Gilman-Opalsky

7.The Eros Effect and the Embodied Mind

Jack Hipp

SECTION THREE: CASE STUDIES

8.Kindling for the Spark: Eros and Emergent Consciousness in Occupy Oakland

Emily Brissette and Mike King

9.Eros Effect as Emergency Politics: Empathy, Agency, and Network in South Korea’s Sewol Ferry Disaster

Gooyong Kim and Anat Schwartz

10.Climatology of the Eros Effect: Notes from the Japanese Archipelago

Sabu Kohso

SECTION FOUR: REJOINDERS

11.Feminism and the Eros Effect

Nina Power

12.Waves of Protest, the Eros Effect, and the Social Relations of Diffusion

Lesley Wood

13.Eros Effect or Biological Hatred?

AK Thompson

Afterword

Douglas Kellner

Contributors

Index