Imaginal Machines
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Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
Stevphen ShukaitisAll power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But what exactly is radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, Imaginal Machines explores the emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the embodied forms of radical imagination.
What does it mean to invoke the power of the imagination when it seems that the imagination has already seized power through the power of the spectacle? Does any subversive potentiality remain? Perhaps it is only honest to think in terms of a temporally-bounded subversive power. It might be that imaginal machines only work by breaking down. That is, their functioning is only possible, paradoxically, by their malfunctioning. By reopening the question of recuperation,...
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Pioneer of Inner Space
The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater
Donald P. DulchinosA biography of the largely unknown Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the ‘American De Quincey’ and best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. Ludlow, a fixture in the bohemian circles of New York City in the 1860s, also made a bold journey to the West Coast on the Overland Stagecoach. Short story writer, music and drama critic, and journalist as well as pioneering psychedelic adventurer, he befriended Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, among other celebrated figures in nineteenth-century America. With illustrations.
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Incentive itself is the raw material of Overcoming Fitness. When an artifact is potent enough to influence the germline and be passed onto offspring, that work is called artwork. Overcoming Fitness (the life work of Robert Kocik) traces this process. The various writings included in this pamphlet are contributions to the nascent disciplines known as the Sore, Oversensitive, Insecure, Insensitive and Subtle Sciences. Overcoming Fitness is comedy. That is, because of its provisions we may now live more fortunate lives. Robert Kocik lives and works in Wawarsing, New York, where he directs the Bureau of Material Behaviors. “Robert Kocik diagnoses the disease at the heart of ourfitness-oriented culture. The problem is that the more we insist onimprovement, the more we alienate ourselves from our everyday living. Kocik echoes Rousseau’s Emile as much as the Situationists. But his approach is both more densely textual and more evocatively elusive. Overcoming Fitness is a long poem as how-to manual, providing necessary lessons in the art of undoing.”...
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Using the “anti-oedipal” insights of Deleuze and Guattari’s classic work on capitalism and schizophrenia, Perez argues for “anti-fascist strategies ineveryday life.” He reads Nietzsche, literature, films, and popular culture for deep political sympathies and antagonisms.
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New Enclosures
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