The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life

＂A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation＂--

Kristin Ross was born in State College, Pennsylvania in 1953. She attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received a PhD in French Literature from Yale in 1981. She is the author of a number of books on modern French politics and culture, all of which have been widely translated: The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Minnesota, 1988; Verso, 2008); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT, 1995); May 68 and its Afterlives (Chicago, 2002), Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015) and The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life (Verso, 2023). She has also translated works by Jacques Rancière and by the militant collective, Mauvaise Troupe. She lives in Stone Ridge, New York and Paris.