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How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that
subvert regimes of economic and political control? How do art,
aesthetics and activism inform one another? And how do strategic
spaces of creativity become the basis for new forms of production
and governance? The Composition of Movements to Come reconsiders
the history and the practices of the avant-garde, from the
Situationists to the Art Strike, revolutionary Constructivism to
Laibach and Neue Slowenische Kunst, through an autonomist Marxist
framework. Moving the framework beyond an overly narrow class
analysis, the book explores broader questions of the changing
nature of cultural labor and forms of resistance around this labor.
It examines a doubly articulated process of refusal: the refusal of
separating art from daily life and the re-fusing of these
antagonistic energies by capitalist production and governance. This
relationship opens up a new terrain for strategic thought in
relation to everyday politics, where the history of the avant-garde
is no longer separated from broader questions of political economy
or movement, but becomes a point around which to reorient these
considerations.
How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that
subvert regimes of economic and political control? How do art,
aesthetics and activism inform one another? And how do strategic
spaces of creativity become the basis for new forms of production
and governance? The Composition of Movements to Come reconsiders
the history and the practices of the avant-garde, from the
Situationists to the Art Strike, revolutionary Constructivism to
Laibach and Neue Slowenische Kunst, through an autonomist Marxist
framework. Moving the framework beyond an overly narrow class
analysis, the book explores broader questions of the changing
nature of cultural labor and forms of resistance around this labor.
It examines a doubly articulated process of refusal: the refusal of
separating art from daily life and the re-fusing of these
antagonistic energies by capitalist production and governance. This
relationship opens up a new terrain for strategic thought in
relation to everyday politics, where the history of the avant-garde
is no longer separated from broader questions of political economy
or movement, but becomes a point around which to reorient these
considerations.
The 20 essays in this book cover a broad range: embedded
intellectuals in increasingly corporatised universities, research
projects in which factory workers and academics work side by side,
revolutionary ethnographies of the Global Justice Movement, and
meditations on technology from the branches of a Scottish tree-sit.
Nonfiction. Political Science. Criticism and Theory. Art. "IMAGINAL
MACHINES explores with humor and wit the condition of art and
politics in contemporary capitalism. It reviews the potentials and
limits of liberatory art (from surrealism to Tom Waits) while
charting the always-resurgent creations of the collective
imagination. Shukaitis exhibits a remarkable theoretical breadth,
bringing together the work of Castoriadis, the Situationists, and
autonomous Marxism to define a new task for militant research:
constructing imaginal machines that escape capitalism. IMAGINAL
MACHINES is truly a book that makes a path by walking"--Silvia
Federici, author of CALIBAN AND THE WITCH: WOMEN, THE BODY, AND
PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION.
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