Escape From the 19th Century
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Did the nineteenth century ever come to an end? Was the twentieth century just a re-run? If to know “History” as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that won’t stop haunting us. Two illuminated madmen–Charles Fourier and Friedrich Nietzsche–and two too-sane geniuses–J.-P. Proudhon and Karl Marx–are enlisted in the break-out plan. The shape of this plan is then suggested in a final essay showing how old “rights and customs” of paleolithic reciprocity and eqalitarian spirituality have made innumerable re-entries into History.
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...Varan: New Friends
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One day a boy out hunting looks into the eyes of a hurt animal. He hears his mother’s voice in his mind and understands he should not kill the wounded animal, as old habits would have made him do.
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Collected essays from the editor or co-editor of Surrealist Subversions, Gone to Croatan and Sounding Off.
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ContentsPreface by Anu BonoboIntroduction by Ron SakolskyI Being AnarchyTeaching Anarchy .Why Consent To Being Ruled At All?Liberty ShieldRefusing The MarketplaceThe Myth of Government-Sponsored RevolutionPuppets vs PuppetsWhose Streets, Our StreetsII Hearing AnarchyHangin’ Out on the Corner of Music and ResistanceFinding Your VoiceFirespitterAnarchy in a Diasporic KeyIII Surrealizing AnarchySurrealist May Day Greetings!Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of DesireSurrealist Desire, Anarchy, and the Poetry of RevoltAnarcho-Surrealist PoeticsTotal RefusalIV Discovering AnarchyA Surrealist Re-Imagining of CanadaBlack Star NorthDancing WavesUtopia At Your DoorstepResourcesBare Acts
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This year, the annual Sarai Reader looks at ‘Acts’ – at instruments of legislation, at things within and
outside the law, and at ‘acts’ – as different ways of ‘doing’ things in society and culture.
Several essays echo and complement themes that have emerged in earlier readers. Piracy,
borders, surveillance, claims to authority and entitlement, the language of expertise, the
legal regulation of sexual behaviour and trespasses of various kinds have featured
prominently in previous Readers. This collection foregrounds these issues in a way we hope
can make a series of coherent but autonomous and interrelated arguments.Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi, IndiaEditors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi + Geert Lovink
Guest Editor: Lawrence Liang
Associate Editor: Smriti Vohra
Translations: Shveta SardaEditorial Collective: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ravi Sundaram,
Ravi S. Vasudevan, Awadhendra Sharan, Jeebesh Bagchi + Geert LovinkDesign: Mrityunjay Chatterjee
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Associate Design: Gauri Bajaj
Design Coordinator: Monica Narula
Cover Design: Gauri BajajPREFACE –...The Conspiracy of Art
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In The Conspiracy of Art, Jean Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Far from lamenting the ‘end of art,’ Baudrillard celebrates art’s new function within the process of insider-trading. Spiralling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like the rest of society as a whole.
Conceived and edited by life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylvère Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Art presents his writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economy and media. Culminating with “War Porn,” a scathing analysis of the spectacular images of Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the book folds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought.
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Born in Reims in 1929 to a family of French peasants, French theorist Jean Baudrillard has challenged all existing theories and visions of contemporary society with radical humor and great precision....
