The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long
welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social
struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and
authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library or a
research collection in the conventional sense but rather a
disorganized and fugitive space for the development of a political
consciousness of being indifferent to the deadly forms of power
that characterize our society. Housed by the Archive are autonomous
radicals, runaways, abolitionists, commoners, and dreamers who no
longer live as obedient or merely resistant subjects. In this
innovative, genre- and format-bending publication, Avery F. Gordon,
the "keeper" of the Archive, presents a selection of its
documents-original and compelling essays, letters, cultural
analyses, images, photographs, conversations, friendship exchanges,
and collaborations with various artists. Gordon creatively uses the
imaginary of the Archive to explore the utopian elements found in a
variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the
present, zeroing in on Marxist critical theory and the black
radical tradition. Fusing critical theory with creative writing in
a historical context, The Hawthorn Archive represents voices from
the utopian margins, where fact, fiction, theory, and image
converge. Reminiscent of the later fictions of Italo Calvino or
Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, The Hawthorn Archive is a
groundbreaking work that defies strict disciplinary,
methodological, and aesthetic boundaries. And like Ghostly Matters:
Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, which established Gordon
as one of the most influential interdisciplinary scholars of the
humanities and social sciences in recent years, it provides a
kaleidoscopic analysis of power and effect. The Hawthorn Archive's
experimental format and inventive synthesis of critical theory and
creative writing make way for a powerful reconception of what
counts as social change and political action, offering creative
inspiration and critical tools to artists, activists, scholars
across various disciplines, and general readers alike.
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