Constituent Imagination
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Constituent Imagination
Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization
Erika Biddle, Stevphen Shukaitis, and David Graeber (Editors)From the ivory tower to the barricades! Radical intellectuals explore the relationship between research and resistance.
What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the detached intellectual, observing events from on high, make sense anymore? In this powerful and unabashedly militant collection, over two dozen academic authors and engaged intellectuals—including Antonio Negri and Colectivo Situaciones—provide some challenging answers. In the process, they redefine the nature of intellectual practice itself.
The twenty essays cover a broad range: embedded intellectuals in increasingly corporatized universities, research projects in which factory workers and academics work side by side, revolutionary ethnographies of the Global Justice Movement, meditations on technology from the branches of a Scottish tree-sit. What links them all is a collective and expansive re-imagining of engaged intellectual work in the service of social change....
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The Russian Anarchists
Paul Avrich
In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of “direct action”—workers’ control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against the enemies of a free society.Avrich consulted published material in five languages and anarchist archives worldwide to present a picture of the philosophers, bomb throwers, peasants and soldiers who fought and died for the freedom of “Mother Russia.” Including the influence and ideas of Bakunin and Kropotkin, the armed uprisings of Makhno, the activities of Volin, Maximoff, and the attempted aid of Berkman and Emma Goldman.
“It combines exact scholarship with imaginative insight, intellectual grasp and readability. The author has a flair for concrete instance that makes the milieu which he describes alive and he conveys not only what people said and did but also what they meant and felt.”—Times Literary Supplement
The late Paul Avrich was professor of history at Queens College,...
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A reply to, and an assault on, Murray Bookchin’s ‘Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism,’ Bookchin himself, Bookchinism, and so called ‘anarcho-leftism.’
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“Black does not write particularly well if judged solely on the grounds of grammar, yet one area where he is at his strongest is in vociferous humourous criticism” – Do or Die
...Cannabis Chassidis
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Cannabis Chassidis
The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs
Yoseph Leib ibn MardachyaIs Marijuana Kosher?
Yes, of course it is! But the better question is: If I am going to get higher than high, isn’t there some useful traditional guidance about how best to do so? If not, then what good is the Torah?
Join Yoseph Leib on his travels and studies throughout Jerusalem, New York, and Rainbow Country, USA in search of guidance about how Cannabis and psychedelics have and have not been used in both ancient and emerging Chassidic traditions, and what the way we have related to our desires for medicines, gods and intoxicants can teach us about how we relate to ourselves, our community, and our G-d. The glorious problem of how what we can learn can set us free, in all kinds of ways.
Chassidis (“kind-ness”) means the way to do all the things we love doing,...
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A down-and-dirty survey of the Surrealist movement written under a pseudonym in 1970 by leading Situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem. Intended for a high-school readership, and dashed off in two weeks, Vaneigem’s sketch bars no holds: disrespectful in the extreme, blistering on Surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, and packed with telling quotations, it also gives respect where respect is due. Locating Surrealism’s “original sin” in its ideological nature, Vaneigem clearly identifies the “radioactive fragment of radicalism” that the movement never managed completely to shed. If you want an unequivocal answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?”, look no further. And for readers interested in the Situationists, this short book sheds a great deal of light on their attitudes, negative and positive, towards their Surrealist predecessors. Born in 1934 in Lessines, Belgium, Raoul Vaneigem was a member of the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. Along with Guy Debord, he provided the main works of theory for this incredibly influential radical art group....
Read more about: Cavalier History of Surrealism »Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne & The Antemosaic Cosmic Man
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Class Struggle and the Adamic Imagination in Herman
MelvilleIn Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in
revolt sought a new universal in the working class but
soon found itself in the orbit of the state civil
service; in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt
found a new universal in what Melville called
“antemosaic” reality, Queequeg, embodied in the
multiracial working class, the “Anacharsis Cloots
deputation,” in radical antithesis to the state.Herman Melville (1818–1891) came to this perspective
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in the feverish production of six novels of the sea,
culminating in Moby Dick, in the 1846–1851 period. As
the whaling ship Pequod was destroyed by Moby Dick,
the Indian harpooner Tashtego nailed a red flag to the
mast, also catching the wing of a sky-hawk, with its
“imperial beak.” Thus Melville connects the red man
with the red flag, pulling down the imperial eagle,...
