Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The avant-garde is dead… long live the avant-garde Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde offers a new way of analysing and theorizing the question of the avant-garde today. It is customary within art history and cultural history to argue that the avant-garde disappeared as… Continue reading Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde
Communist Ontologies
Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life Bruno Gullì & Richard Gilman-Opalsky “To be communist is to be lost, looking for an answer, looking for a way out. Communist Ontologies is an explicit dialogue between Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky. The book breaks with the monologue form, brings us away… Continue reading Communist Ontologies
The Wages of Dreamwork
The Wages of Dreamwork. Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor Stevphen Shukaitis & Joanna Figiel Surviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated as engines of economic growth, economic recovery and urban revitalization even as the conditions for our continued survival… Continue reading The Wages of Dreamwork
Fables of Re-enchantment. Multiplicity, Imaginary, Revolution
Fables of Re-enchantment. Multiplicity, Imaginary, Revolution Stefania Consigliere Translated by Steven Colatrella Ghosts, oracles, and talking plants… an atlas for escaping disenchantment Enchantment has disappeared from our lives. Whoever dares to mention it violates the most basic epistemological canons that hold our world together and is immediately labeled ignorant or mad. It is suspicious, however,… Continue reading Fables of Re-enchantment. Multiplicity, Imaginary, Revolution
Senyawa: Compound Lyricism
Senyawa: Compound Lyricism Translation of lyrics from experimental Indonesian band Senyawa Senyawa, the experimental Indonesian band formed by Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi, does not sound like anyone else… the combination of Wukir’s handmade instruments and Rully’s other-worldly vocals, channeling Javanese melodies with the intensity of punk and metal, with an avant-garde / DIY approach… Continue reading Senyawa: Compound Lyricism
Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression. Agency, Finance and Sociality in the New Economic Space
Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression. Agency, Finance and Sociality in the New Economic Space Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen What would an Internet native economic system look like? Could economic power be systematically shared amongst individuals and their self-defined groups, with no central economic authority? And could that system secure collectively defined social… Continue reading Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression. Agency, Finance and Sociality in the New Economic Space
On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of/in the Undercommons
On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of/in the Undercommons “The weapon of theory is a conference of the birds. The kitchen table is its public and its publisher.” – Stefano Harney & Fred Moten In the ten years since it was published, one of the most striking things about The Undercommons as a text was… Continue reading On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of/in the Undercommons
Hypothesis 891. Beyond the Roadblocks
Hypothesis 891. Beyond the Roadblocks Colectivo Situaciones & MTD Solano Translated by Dina Khorasanee & Liz Mason-Deese Important collective theorization on the meaning of the 2001 Argentinean uprising In 2001 a mass popular uprising overthrew the neoliberal government in Argentina: thousands upon thousands of people, both in organizations and on their own, took to the… Continue reading Hypothesis 891. Beyond the Roadblocks
Out of the Clear
Out of the Clear Erin Manning Out of the Clear begins with the question of the clearing: What operations are at work when land is cleared, or thought is cleared, of all that grows wild? Clearing, the settler-colonial act of defining a territory and producing a border, clears the world of the thickets of all… Continue reading Out of the Clear
Paths to Autonomy
Paths to Autonomy Edited by Noah Bremer & Vaida Stepanovaite Collection exploring the history and development of autonomous politics in Lithuania and Eastern Europe A path is created when a direction is taken, its production marks the imbrication of personal choice, communal action and subhuman (structural, historical, ecological) conditionings. We are at the same time… Continue reading Paths to Autonomy