A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible write by Laboratory of Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. This book was released on 2011-10. A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It�s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht�s words to heart: �Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.� It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.
A User's Guide to [demanding] the Impossible
A User's Guide to [demanding] the Impossible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A User's Guide to [demanding] the Impossible write by Gavin Grindon. This book was released on 2010. A User's Guide to [demanding] the Impossible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible is "a brief introduction to strategies and stories of art activism throughout history, from Sylvia Pankhurst to Dada, Gustav Courbet to Electric Disturbance Theatre." This small volume was created by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a London-based collective, in an atmosphere of cuts to public programs and a resulting nationwide wave of protests. It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.
The Hawthorn Archive
The Hawthorn Archive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hawthorn Archive write by Avery F. Gordon. This book was released on 2017-10-31. The Hawthorn Archive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library or a research collection in the conventional sense but rather a disorganized and fugitive space for the development of a political consciousness of being indifferent to the deadly forms of power that characterize our society. Housed by the Archive are autonomous radicals, runaways, abolitionists, commoners, and dreamers who no longer live as obedient or merely resistant subjects. In this innovative, genre- and format-bending publication, Avery F. Gordon, the “keeper” of the Archive, presents a selection of its documents—original and compelling essays, letters, cultural analyses, images, photographs, conversations, friendship exchanges, and collaborations with various artists. Gordon creatively uses the imaginary of the Archive to explore the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, zeroing in on Marxist critical theory and the black radical tradition. Fusing critical theory with creative writing in a historical context, The Hawthorn Archive represents voices from the utopian margins, where fact, fiction, theory, and image converge. Reminiscent of the later fictions of Italo Calvino or Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, The Hawthorn Archive is a groundbreaking work that defies strict disciplinary, methodological, and aesthetic boundaries. And like Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, which established Gordon as one of the most influential interdisciplinary scholars of the humanities and social sciences in recent years, it provides a kaleidoscopic analysis of power and effect. The Hawthorn Archive’s experimental format and inventive synthesis of critical theory and creative writing make way for a powerful reconception of what counts as social change and political action, offering creative inspiration and critical tools to artists, activists, scholars across various disciplines, and general readers alike.
Performance on Behalf of the Environment
Performance on Behalf of the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance on Behalf of the Environment write by Richard D. Besel. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Performance on Behalf of the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions about the purity of our water and foods linger. In the shadow of these material conditions, concerned citizens have reacted by issuing critiques against careless consumerism and excessive lifestyles. Their hope is to illustrate and inspire alternative ways of living. As part of such efforts and activism, some have turned to performance as a means to investigate matters further, pose challenges and questions, and enact new ways of being and thinking in a globalized world. Performance on Behalf of the Environment is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars that explore critically the strengths, limitations, and processes of what can be termed environmental performances.
Degrowth in Movement(s)
Degrowth in Movement(s) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Degrowth in Movement(s) write by Nina Treu. This book was released on 2020-05-29. Degrowth in Movement(s) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. Degrowth in Movement(s) reflects on the current situation of social movements aiming at overcoming capitalism, industrialism and domination. The essays ask: What is the key idea of the respective movement? Who is active? What is the relation with the degrowth movement? What can the degrowth movement learn from these other movements and the other way around? Which common proposals, but also which contradictions, oppositions and tensions exist? And what alliances could be possible for broader systemic transformations? Corinna Bukhart, Matthias Schmelzer, and Nina Treu have curated an impressive demonstration that there are, beyond regressive neoliberalism and techno-fixes, emancipatory alternatives contributing to a good life for all. Degrowth in Movement(s) explores this mosaic for social-ecological transformation - an alliance strengthened by diversity.
