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Gilman-Opalsky argues that revolt is a form of philosophy from below, which carries and conveys more critical content than what is conventionally called philosophy. But, how is philosophy done by other means than philosophy? What is the intellect of insurrection?     To theorize revolt as “philosophy from below,” it is necessary to refute the conventional vilification of insurrection as irrational and violent. Rather than making an intellectual analysis of revolt, we try to comprehend revolt as intellectual analysis itself. Professional thinkers have more to learn from insurrectionary movements than they have to teach them. Gilman-Opalsky’s work aims to take seriously the communicative content of recent revolts, from Greece, to North Africa, to Turkey, to Brazil, to the US, and elsewhere. Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky’s research and teaching specializes in the history of political philosophy, Continental and contemporary social theory, Marxism, capitalism, autonomist politics, critical theory, and the public sphere. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky is author of three books: Unbounded Publics: Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory (Lexington Books, 2008), Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy (Autonomedia, 2011), and Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned (Autonomedia, 2014). He is co-editor of the forthcoming book for Temple University Press, Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky has published numerous articles and book chapters on social theory and political philosophy, and has lectured widely throughout the US and Europe. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky’s undergraduate and MA degrees are in Philosophy and his Ph.D. is in Political Science from The New School for Social Research.