Revolutions in Reverse
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Revolutions in Reverse
Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
David GraeberCapitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it’s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can’t imagine an alternative that wouldn’t be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it?
In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places....
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Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy
Richard Gilman-OpalskyDespite recent crises in the financial system, uprisings in Greece, France, Tunisia, and Bolivia, worldwide decline of faith in neoliberal trade policies, deepening ecological catastrophes, and global deficits of realized democracy, we still live in an era of “spectacular capitalism.” But what is “spectacular capitalism?” Spectacular capitalism is the dominant mythology of capitalism that disguises its internal logic and denies the macroeconomic reality of the actually existing capitalist world. Taking on this elusive mythology, and those who too easily accept it, Richard Gilman-Opalsky exposes the manipulative and self-serving narrative of spectacular capitalism.
Drawing on the work of Guy Debord, Gilman-Opalsky argues that the theory of practice and practice of theory are superseded by upheavals that do the work of philosophy. One could ask: Who better raises questions about public and private spheres of influence and control, Jürgen Habermas or the water war activists who made a rebellion in Cochabamba,...
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Art Gangs
Protest and Counterculture in New York City
Alan W. MooreArt Gangs explores the work of artists’ groups in New York City after 1968. From the Art Workers’ Coalition through Art & Language, Colab and Group Material in the 1980s, in Soho and the Lower East Side, these collectives built the postmodern art world. This is the key background story of today’s politicized international art world with its constellations of collectives, a scholarly text written in an accessible style.
Alan W. Moore worked with the artists’ group Colab and helped start the cultural center ABC No Rio. He has worked as a critic, media artist and teacher, and earned a PhD in art history from the City University of New York. He currently lives in Madrid.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: On and Off the Collective Subject in Contemporary Art
Chapter One: Taking it Out of the Modern: Founding the Art Workers Coalition
Chapter Two: The Action Fraction: Guerrilla Art Action Group
Chapter Three: Soho Spring: The Alternative Space Arrives
Chapter Four: Revising American Art: Art &...Markets Not Capitalism
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Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. JohnsonIndividualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.
Massive concentrations of wealth, rigid economic hierarchies, and unsustainable modes of production are not the results of the market form, but of markets deformed and rigged by a network of state-secured controls and privileges to the business class. Markets Not Capitalism explores the gap between radically freed markets and the capitalist-controlled markets that prevail today. It explains how liberating market exchange from state capitalist privilege can abolish structural poverty, help working people take control over the conditions of their labor, and redistribute wealth and social power.
Featuring discussions of socialism, capitalism, markets, ownership,...
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2012 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints
20 Years of Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2012!
Our 20th annual wall calendar, with artwork by James Koehnline, and text by the Autonomedia Collective.
Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project — a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the “New World” and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear — at the dawn of this new millennium — that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever!
Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!
32 pages, 12 x 16 inches, saddlestitched
isbn 978-1-57027-238-7 : price $9.95 : 32 pages
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Fukushima Mon Amour
Essays on Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Daniel de Roulet, Anne Waldman, Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis, Sabu KohsoFour literary and political essays on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan.
Contents
You Didn’t See Anything at Fukushima
Letter to a Japanese Friend
DANIEL DE ROULET …………………………………….. 7Introduction to
Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment
The Iovis Triology / Eternal War
ANNE WALDMAN ……………………………………….. 31Must We Rebuild Their Anthill?
Letter to Japanese Comrades
SILVIA FEDERICI & GEORGE CAFFENTZIS …….. 37Fangs Hiding in the Green:
Between Revolution and Disaster,
The World and The Earth
SABU KOHSO ……………………………………………. 47Notes on Contributors ………………………………. 69
Notes on Contributors
DANIEL DE ROULET is the author of more than twenty novels,...
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