The Void of the Forms of Historicity as Such

Algorithmic interpellation

“…In an effort to locate a space for political transformation in Althusser, many scholars have turned to his later work on aleatory materialism, in which the “hard determinism” of his earlier structuralism is reconfigured as the “soft determinism of radical contingency” (Marasco, 2019, p. 356; see also Bargu, 2012; Goshgarian, 2019; Li, 2017). Althusser's aleatory materialism posits our political and economic conditions as the product of unforeseen, chance encounters that are, accordingly, always vulnerable to new, unpredictable events capable of changing the configurations of these conditions (Bargu, 2012, pp.…”