Idris Robinson

Philosopher and writer

Recently released THE REVOLT ECLIPSES WHATEVER THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER is a series of reflections surveying the events of an ailing country traversed by civil war on multiple fronts.
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Published Nov. 25, 2025

A selection of review snippets

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Sasha Frere-Jones
Idris Robinson’s book presents a radical perspective on the role of martyrdom in the next American revolution.
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Carlos Flores Cancino
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Zane Perdue
I hope that you, the reader in potentia, will be able to see much more powerfully the superimposed figures positively present in Robinson’s book when you open up its pages: the insurgent and the writer himself who remains valent, or else poised, like some sensitive substance hovering between different states of matter into which he might phase-shift at the slightest change in temperature or barometric pressure. At one moment, he elegantly frames his beautiful translations of Plato. At the next, he pries a brick up from the pavement in the megalopolitan whirl.
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About

Idris Robinson is a philosopher from the New York hinterlands. For over a decade, he has written extensively on crisis and revolt. He is the author of The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer (MIT Press / Semiotext(e)) and Escritos desde la tierra baldía (Irrupción Ediciones).

Currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, he is completing a monograph-length study on the progression of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy that substantially reworks his PhD dissertation, 'Paradigms and Logical Morphology in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy.'
Semiotext(e)

Idris Robinson. Idris? I hope you’re named after the jazz drummer Idris Muhammad cuz the way you can intellectually riff is like WOOO! Your ability to make your rebel brain lay out resistance and resilience, using simultaneous interrogative chords, while including the voice of your absent and locked up co-conspirators, Oooooo! The professor radical, fully engaged. Cigarette dangling from your mouth. Ooooo! I know that when you write you’re about to arm us with timely insights. Crazy radical of my common ancestry, i love you. Write on? Right On!

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Joshua Clover

The real challenge for the Left today isn’t diagnosing what’s wrong or coming up with alternatives, but figuring out how to fan the flames of insurrection and dismantle the crumbling empire of capital. It’s here, on the crucial terrain of strategy, that The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer intervenes. With razor-sharp philosophical insight and an unflinching drive to ask the hardest questions, Idris Robinson is exactly the kind of revolutionary thinker we need to identify and escalate the subversive potentials both in and beyond the American wasteland.

Søren Mau