Imaginal Machines: Autonomy and Self Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life - Tapa blanda

 
9781570272080: Imaginal Machines: Autonomy and Self Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
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ISBN 10: 1570272085 ISBN 13: 9781570272080
Editorial: Minor Compositions, 2009

Sinopsis

All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliche: 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, the inevitable drive to integrate the power of social insurgency back into the working of capital and the state, we create possibilities for a politics continually reconstituted against and through the dynamics of recuperation: to keep open an antagonism without closure.

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Acerca del autor

Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at Autonomedia and lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009) and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of CONSTITUENT IMAGINATION: MILITANT INVESTIGATIONS, COLLECTIVE THEORIZATION (AK Press, 2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor.

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Editorial
Minor Compositions
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1570272085
ISBN 13 
9781570272080
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
258
Editor
Shukaitis Stevphen
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