Social Overload
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This is the first English-language collection from the noted Belgian critic Henri-Pierre Jeudy: a viable alternative to pomo nihilism. “History gives the appearance of being written as it unfolds: image events are becoming the only reality. The landscape of ideas seems to be building back on the ruins of ideologies. Theoretical violence has been retired to the museum of thought, even if the theory market is doing well.”
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Shut Them Down! is an essential collection of reflections on
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the movement against the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles,
Scotland. As well as action stories from the frontlines of
resistance to the summit, there are detailed accounts of
how various aspects of the mobilisation were organised,
and analysis of the lessons to be learned. But Shut Them
Down!’s relevance extends far beyond the Gleneagles
experience. It addresses fundamental issues such as the
nature of openness and ‘horizontality’, and the limitations
of the ‘activist’ identity. Most important of all, Shut Them
Down! poses the question: how can we take those worlds
we glimpse in such moments and generalise them so that
they make sense in the rest of our lives?
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Contents
Introduction
The Editors 9
1 On the road
The Free Association 17
2 ‘This is how we do it’
Kara N....Semiotext(e) SF
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Massive and overbearingly hip anthology of post-cyberpunk science fiction and other matter. Varied and largely critically-acclaimed material by the obscure, the overexposed and the justly renowned. Take your pick from the likes of Ballard, Bey, Burroughs, Di Filipo, Farmer, Gibson, Metzger, Rabinowitz, Rucker, Shirley, Stang and all the Wilsons (Colin, Peter Lamborn and Robert Anton).
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A reissue of this classic text (first published in 1946), with a lengthy introduction from Kevin Coogan.
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“We must emphasize the emotions, the imagination, the moral feelings, the primacy of the individual human being, must restore the balance that has been broken by the hypertrophy of science in the last two centuries. The root is man, here and not there, now and not then.” —from the text
“Macdonald has turned his back on every kind of doctrine that implicitly would treat man as an object, even from a benevolent point of view. What he is concerned with is to create a humanism that can hold its own in the face of enormous bureaucracies and the atomic bomb. In so doing he has had to renounce many things which he had heretofore energetically championed. This is further evidence of what a really serious person he is.” —Hannah ArendtRevolutionary Writing
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Fourteen radical essays in “open” or “autonomous” Marxism, subverting (by critiquing) the typical concept of the political, and examining the current configurations of the insurrection of global labor against global capital. After a century of failed attempts to bring about radical social change,the concept of revolution is itself in crisis. The resurgence ofanti-capitalist movements across the globe is a hopeful sign. Yet, themost disturbing is the contemporary indifference to revolution. What doesanti-capitalism in its contemporary form of anti-globalisation mean if itis not a practical critique of capitalism and what does it wish to achieveif its anti-capitalism fails to espouse the revolutionary project of humanemancipation? Anti-capitalist indifference to revolution is acontradiction in terms. The misery of our time demands that we, onceagain, dream revolution, that is, orient our theoretical and practicalactivities on the ideal of the society of the free and equal.
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