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Lives of the Orange Men
Lives of the Orange Men: A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement Major Waldemar Fydrych Foreword by the Yes Men Edited by Gavin Grindon In Communist Poland, Surrealism Paints You!!! Between 1981 and 1989 in Wroclaw Poland, in an atmosphere in which dissent was forbidden and martial law a reality, the Orange Alternative…
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Future Che
Future Che John Gruntfest Future Che brings together, for the first time, the art, poetry and music of legendary free jazz saxophonist and composer John Gruntfest. Drawing on a critical theory of waves Future Che incites wave after wave of joyful insurrection. This book-art-music object includes an introduction by Richard Gilman-Opalsky and a live recording…
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Precarious Communism
Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned Richard Gilman-Opalsky How does one demonstrate the enduring relevance of a sacred text but to help it speak to present times? This is what churches do with the Bible and what Marxists do with the writings of Marx. Richard Gilman-Opalsky offers a book-length détournement of The Communist Manifesto as…
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nanopolitics: an evening of bodies and books London October 9th
nanopolitics, exhaustion, biopolitics: an evening of bodies and books London, October 9th 7pm @ no.w.here: Top Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG This evening will present an encounter of three lines of thought and practice relating to politics, bodies, life, the social and the common. Doing so, we attempt to think across conceptions…
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nanopolitics handbook
nanopolitics handbook the nanopolitics group How to think politics with and through the body? The invention of new modes of sensibility is vital to enriching and sustaining political engagements, labours and lives in the situated contexts of urban collectivity. The nanopolitics handbook investigates the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity, precarious…
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Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation
Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation Neala Schleuning Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach…
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The Undercommons
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Introduction by Jack Halberstam In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique. Today the general wealth…
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Mayday Screening: The Condition of the Working Class
Screening May 1: The Condition of the Working Class @ Wivenhoe 7:30 PM, May 1st @ Nottage Maritime Institute The Quay Wivenhoe Colchester CO7 9BX A new documentary feature film by Michael Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill There will be a Q&A with the directors after the screening. Everything changes and yet everything stays the same.…
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The Politics of Workers’ Inquiry Conference May 2-3
The Politics of Workers’ Inquiry Conference May 2-3, 2013 @ University of Essex Workers’ inquiry is an approach to and practice of knowledge production that seeks to understand the changing composition of labor and its potential for revolutionary social transformation. It is the practice of turning the tools of the social sciences into weapons of…
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Squatting in Europe
Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles Edited by the Squatting Europe Kollective Squatting offers a radical but simple solution to the crises of housing, homelessness, and the lack of social space that mark contemporary society: occupying empty buildings and rebuilding lives and communities in the process. Squatting has a long and complex history, interwoven…
