"In any case, we know only that if there is a really socialist governmentality, then it is not hidden within socialism and its texts. It cannot be deduced from them. It must be invented." Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: 94 This colloquium brings together five organizers and radical thinkers from different corners of the planet who will address the question of Occupy, the Left and the new governmentality. Brief presentations will be followed by a discussion open to the general public. Sarah Hawas -CU and Jan25 Marianne LeNabat- NSSR and OWS Dotan Leshem- CU and J-14 Nadia Urbinati- CU Dimitris Vardoulakis- UWS Moderator: Stathis Gourgouris- CU In the four years since the outbreak of the financial crisis, the world witnessed a growing loss of popular consent to the neoliberal regime in both liberal democracies and autocratic post-imperial states. Although grasping the magnitude of the opportunity embedded in the moment, the Left has failed to seize it. Both organizers and thinkers alike tend to agree that one of the main reasons for that is their personal failure to formulate a novel form of governmentality to which Michel Foucault referred. While political thinkers, whether reformists or radical, are struggling to gain ground in their attempts to formulate a much needed novel rationality of government, a younger generation of Occupy organizers are gaining invaluable experience performing various forms of government and are painfully aware of the challenges yet to be met.