Abject, America
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Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories – such as “the people” – that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of “multitude,” elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of “people,” favored by classical political philosophy. Hobbes, who detested the notion of multitude, defined it as shunning political unity, resisting authority, and never entering into lasting agreements. “When they rebel against the state,” Hobbes wrote, “the citizens are the multitude against the people.” But the multitude isn’t just a negative notion, it is a rich concept that allows us to examine anew plural experiences and forms of nonrepresentative democracy. Drawing from philosophy of language, political economics, and ethics, Virno shows that being foreign, “not-feeling-at-home-anywhere,” is a condition that forces the multitude to place its trust in the intellect....
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Dreamscapes
Edited by Ron Kolm, Jennifer Ross and Paul MeyersDreamscapes is edited Ron Kolm, Jennifer Ross and Paul Meyers, members of the staff of Posman Books in Grand Central Station in New York City. Dreamscapes features work that attempts to delineate the myths that arise from even the most concrete depictions of place; New York City, Vietnam, etc. The first issue includes poems and texts by Sudie Nostrand, Michael Lindgren, Christine Calvo, Nhi Chung, Richard Rogers and Carol Wierzbicki, and artwork by Melissa DeCaprio and Prisanee Suwanwatana.
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Proud To Be Flesh
A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net
Edited by Josephine Berry Slater, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Michael Corris, Benedict Seymour, Anthony Iles and Simon WorthingtonChapter Titles:
1. Direct Democracy and its Demons:Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
2. Net Art to Conceptual Art and Back
3. I, Cyborg: Reinventing the Human
4. Of Commoners and Criminals
5. Organising Horizontally
6. Assuming the Position: Art and/Against Business
7. Under the Net – the City and the Camp
8. Reality Check: Class and Immaterial Labour
9. The Open WorkIn late 1994, back in the days of dial-up modems and Netscape Navigator 1.0, Mute magazine announced its timely arrival. Dedicated to an analysis of culture and politics ‘after the net’, Mute has consistently challenged the grandiose claims of the communications revolution, debunking its utopian rhetoric and offering more critical perspectives....
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The Anarchists
A Portrait of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
John Henry Mackay“Germany’s Poet-Anarchist” John Henry Mackay (1864-1933), born in Scotland and raised in Germany, was an early associate of Die Autonomie, which published his first collection of radical verse, Sturm. His sojourn to London in 1887 became the basis of Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists), which won him world-wide fame. Leading the revival of interest in Max Stirner, Mackay authored the first biography of this most radical of the Young Hegelians and “forerunners of Nietzsche.” And under the nom de guerre of Sagitta, he issued several homoerotic “Books of the Nameless Love,” which — with his anarchist “Books of Freedom,” iconoclastic novels, stories, and poems — won him Nazi condemnation just before he died in Berlin. The Anarchists was first published in English by Benj. R. Tucker, the anarchist editor of Liberty in New York City. It is a thinly-disguised autobiographical journey of transformation from revolutionary self-martyrdom to radical self-ownership....
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An Existing Better World
Notes on the Bread & Puppet Theater
George DennisonWritten shortly before Dennison’s death in 1987, these notes cover much ground: reviews of Bread and Puppet shows in New York, in Europe, and on the theater’s home-base, a farm in Vermont; an analysis of Peter Schumann’s work in the context of Brecht and twentieth-century political theater; a history of Bread & Puppet Theater by a comrade and radical educator; and detailed descriptions of the day-to-day creative fabric of the “existing better world” of Bread and Puppet. Most of all, this book is an intimate memoir of a deep friendship, rooted in a sincere belief in the possibility of real social transformation.
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