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Climate Chaos
Climate Chaos. Making Art and Politics on a Dying Planet Neala Schleuning Formulates an anarchist aesthetics exploring what art can mean in and do in the Anthropocene Kant sought to contain the ancient fear and terror of the natural world in his concept of the sublime. He argued that with human reason we could safely…
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The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee
The Magneti Marelli Workers Committee – The “Red Guard” Tells Its Story (Milan, 1975-78) Emilio Mentasti In a large factory in Milan in the mid-70s, a few dozen workers organized themselves against both the management and the unions in an autonomous Workers’ Political Committee. Soon, this “Red Guard” consisted of hundreds of workers fighting against…
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Ideas Arrangements Effects
Ideas Arrangements Effects: Systems Design and Social Justice The Design Studio for Social Intervention Foreword by Arturo Escobar A guide for using design principles to inform and shape radical politics Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects. With this simple premise, this radically accessible systems design bookmakes a compelling case for…
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Red Days
Red Days: Popular Music & the English Counterculture 1965-1975 John Roberts Challenges the conventional narratives about English popular music and the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s The passion, intensity and complexity of the popular music produced in England between 1965-75 is the work of an extraordinary generation of working class and lower…
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The Beautiful Warriors
The Beautiful Warriors. Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Cornelia Sollfrank The Beautiful Warriors. Technofeminist Practice in the 21stCenturybrings together seven current technofeminist positions from the fields of art and activism. In very different ways, they expand the theories and practices of 1990’s cyberfeminism and thus react to new forms of discrimination and…
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Riotous Epistemology
Riotous Epistemology. Imaginary Power, Art, and Insurrection Richard Gilman-Opalsky & Stevphen Shukaitis Riots. Revolts. Revolutions. All flashing moments which throw the world – and our relationship with it – into question. For centuries people have pinned their hopes on radical political change, on turning worlds upside down. But all too often the ever-renewed dream of…
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Entry Points
Entry Points. Resonating Punk, Performance, and Art Stevphen Shukaitis, Penny Rimbaud, Dharma, and Awk Wah Art-media project exploring resonances between punk and performance in the UK and Southeast Asia During the late 1960s and early 1970s, as members of the performance art group EXIT, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher turned to creating outside of the…
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i hate war but i hate our enemies even more
i hate war but i hate our enemies even more Heath Schultz & Becky Nasadowski Arranged from a partisan perspective in the era of the uprising, i hate war, but i hate our enemies even more is an unconventional textual object that uses détournement, collage, and experimental writing against reactionary liberalism, capitalism, and white supremacy.…
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Emotions Go to Work Exhibition
Emotions Go to Work Exhibition 19 January – 24 March 2019 Firstsite, Colchester, UK Ever since the 19th century, people have been collecting scientific data from the human body and cataloguing emotions. Today, smart devices try to gain our trust in order to compile information. We create machines in our image, shaped to serve our…
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Combination Acts
Combination Acts. Notes on Collective Practice in the Undercommons Stevphen Shukaitis Dialogues and essays exploring collaboration in artist collective & self-organized cultural production During the industrial revolution artisans and craft workers sparked struggles against exploitation while the force of law drove unions underground. Today conditions are different… yet they are not. Collective organizing is pre-empted…
