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Imaginal Machines

Author : Stevphen Shukaitis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaginal Machines written by Stevphen Shukaitis and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Machines

Author : Abraham P. DeLeon
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623968828
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Machines written by Abraham P. DeLeon and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces and places, times and histories and representations. They are such an integral fabric of daily reality that their disappearance would have immediate and dire consequences for the survival of humanity. They are part and parcel to our contemporary social order. From labor to social theory, art or consciousness, literature or television, to the asylums of the 19th century, machines are a central figure; an outgrowth of affective desire that seeks to transcend organic limitations of bodies that whither, age and die. Machines takes the reader on an intellectual, artistic, and theoretical journey, weaving an interdisciplinary tale of their emergence across social, cultural and artistic boundaries. With the deep engagement of various texts, Machines offers the reader moments of escape, alternative ways to envision technology for a future yet to materialize. Machines rejects the notion that technological innovations are indeed neutral, propelling us to think differently about those “things” created under specific economic or historical paradigms. Rethinking machines provides a rupture to our current technocratic impetus, shining a critical light on possible alternatives to our current reality. Let us sit back and take a journey through Machines, holding mechanical parts as guides to possible alternative futures.

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing

Author : Arianna Introna
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303099273X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing by : Arianna Introna

Download or read book Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing written by Arianna Introna and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting effects erupt when non-normative bodies and minds clash with the structures of capitalist normalcy. This book brings into conversation Scottish studies, disability studies and Marxist autonomist theory to trace the ways in which these “crip enchantments” are imagined in modern Scottish writing, and the “autonomist” narratives of disability by which they are evoked.

Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action

Author : Benjamin Heim Shepard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783483172
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action written by Benjamin Heim Shepard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting urban activism to historical, philosophical and theoretical ideas of the dialectic, this book builds a new theoretical framework for reimagining the work of anarchist organizing and social movements.

The Labour of Memory

Author : M. Allen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137341645
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Labour of Memory written by M. Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of remembrance on its participants, but reveal how people engaged in memorial culture to address difficult and unbearable conditions in the wake of 7/7.

Community Projects as Social Activism

Author : Benjamin Shepard
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412964261
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Community Projects as Social Activism written by Benjamin Shepard and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services by Benjamin Shepard is an engaging and accessible work that will get today's students excited about the very real prospect of achieving lasting, positive change within their communities. It outlines a distinct approach to community practice born out of the intersection among social movements, day-to-day organizing, and the lessons of five decades of community change practices. This invaluable resource is a must-have for anyone involved in community organization, community health, and community activism practice research and policy.

Politics of the Many

Author : Benjamin Halligan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350105635
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Many written by Benjamin Halligan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many – they are few!' This idea of the Many, as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that cannot be erased for the sake of the One, is the philosophical and political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They raise questions of collective agency, and its crisis in contemporary capitalism, via new engagements with Marxist philosophy, psychoanalysis, theories of social reproduction and value-form, and post-colonial critiques, and drawing on activist thought and strategies. This book interrogates both established and emergent formations of the Many (the people, classes, publics, crowds, masses, multitudes), tracing their genealogies, their recent failures and victories, and their potentials to change the world. The book proposes and explores an intense and provoking series of new or reinvented concepts, figures, and theoretical constellations, including dividuality, the centaur, unintentional vanguard, insomnia at work, always-on capitalism, multitude (from its 'voiding' to a '(non)emergence'), crowds, necropolitics, and the link between political subjectivity and value-form. The contributors to Politics of the Many are both acclaimed and emergent thinkers including Carina Brand, Rebecca Carson, Luhuna Carvalho, Lorenzo Chiesa, Jodi Dean, Dario Gentili, Benjamin Halligan, Marc James Léger, Paul Mazzocchi, Alexei Penzin, Stefano Pippa, Gerald Raunig, and Stevphen Shukaitis.

Subjectivities, Identities, and Education after Neoliberalism

Author : Abraham P. DeLeon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351583891
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Subjectivities, Identities, and Education after Neoliberalism by : Abraham P. DeLeon

Download or read book Subjectivities, Identities, and Education after Neoliberalism written by Abraham P. DeLeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, DeLeon presents a critique of neoliberalism and present times through a metaphor of social collapse and considers what remains once the dust has settled for a different kind of person to emerge. Engaging a variety of social, political and educational theories, along with pop culture and literature, DeLeon positions humanity at the edges of collapse and what will emerge after the fall. Engaging academic and fictional alternatives, he imagines future possibilities through a new kind of person that rises from the rubble. Questioning the foundations of empiricism, standardization and "reproducible" results that reject new forms of social and political projects from materializing, DeLeon discusses the potentials of the imagination and the ways in which it can produce alternative possibilities for our collective future when unleashed and combined with fictional narratives. Moving across multiple intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and historical traditions, he constructs a radical, interdisciplinary vision that challenges us to think about transforming our collective future(s), one in which we construct a new kind of person ready to tackle the challenges of a potentially liberatory future and what this might entail.

Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy

Author : Thomas Diefenbach
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780527829
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy by : Thomas Diefenbach

Download or read book Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy written by Thomas Diefenbach and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading scholars in the field of organisation studies to reflect on the universal phenomena of hierarchy (vertical organisation of tasks) and bureaucracy (rule-bound execution of tasks), resulting in a colourful kaleidoscope of thought-provoking, critical and refreshingly non-mainstream analysis.

Networking Research

Author : Patrick Carmichael
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441106049
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Networking Research written by Patrick Carmichael and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The educational world is increasingly dominated by 'network rhetoric'; not only are teachers and learners seen as participants in networks, the availability of low-cost electronic devices, collaborative environments and new forms of data 'born digital' have changed the nature of education research. How can researchers and research-informed practitioners best engage in and with networks and develop effective networking practices? How might networks and networking be conceptualized in order to frame and support their work in and on networks? How do networks relate to existing organizational forms and how might new networking practices emerge? This book draws on extensive research into educational research networks in schools, colleges and informal education settings to explore these questions. Carmichael combines theoretical insights into networks from different disciplinary backgrounds and awareness of technological developments, with the accounts of teachers, researchers, and technologists. He considers how educational research as a field is changing, how individual and collective research capacities might develop, identifies new research approaches and discusses the emerging role of the 'researcher-networker'.

Beyond Education

Author : Eli Meyerhoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960224
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Education written by Eli Meyerhoff and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making Higher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators typically frame these issues as crises for an otherwise optimal mode of intellectual and professional development. In Beyond Education, Eli Meyerhoff instead sees this impasse as inherent to universities, as sites of intersecting political struggles over resources for studying. Meyerhoff argues that the predominant mode of study, education, is only one among many alternatives and that it must be deromanticized in order to recognize it as a colonial-capitalist institution. He traces how key elements of education—the vertical trajectory of individualized development, its role in preparing people to participate in governance through a pedagogical mode of accounting, and dichotomous figures of educational waste (the “dropout”) and value (the “graduate”)—emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study bound up with different modes of world-making. Through interviews with participants in contemporary university struggles and embedded research with an anarchist free university, Beyond Education paves new avenues for achieving the aims of an “alter-university” movement to put novel modes of study into practice. Taking inspiration from Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and Indigenous resurgence projects, it charts a new course for movements within, against, and beyond the university as we know it.

Joyful Militancy

Author : Carla Bergman
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849352895
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Joyful Militancy written by Carla Bergman and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Absolutely what we need in these days of spreading gloom." —John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism "A guide to a fulfilling militant life." —Michael Hardt, co-author of Assembly "Rigid radicalism" is the congealed and debilitating practices that suck life and inspiration from the fight for a better world. Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability can thrive alongside fierce militant commitment. Carla Bergman co-edited Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook For Youth. Nick Montgomery is an organizer and writer currently at Queen's University.

The Composition of Movements to Come

Author : Stevphen Shukaitis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783481749
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Composition of Movements to Come written by Stevphen Shukaitis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text theorizes political change from within social movement via an engagement with autonomist politics and radical aesthetics.

Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm

Author : Luke Lafitte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644114070
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm written by Luke Lafitte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explores how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence, and literature • Demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history • Looks at the contributions and influence of Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, David Bohm, Norbert Wiener, and Steve Jobs as well as the Nag Hammadi Gnostic gospels Humans invented and constructed machines to aid them, as far back as the Stone Age. As the machines became more complex, they became extensions of the body and mind, and we naturally began projecting consciousness onto them. As Luke Lafitte shows in detail, although machines complicate the already complicated issue of identity, because they are “ours” and “of us,” they are part of our spiritual development. In this sweeping exploration of the history of the machine as a tool, as a transpersonal object to assist human activity, and as a transitional artifact between spirits and the humans who interact with them, Lafitte examines the role that machines play in the struggle between “spiritual man” and “mechanical man” throughout history. He interprets the messages, archetypes, and language of the unconscious in the first popular stories related to mechanical men, and he demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history, specifically between the inventors of these machines and the awakening of our imaginations and our powers of manifestation. He examines the influence of Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Elon Musk, David Bohm, and others and shows how the Nag Hammadi gospels explain how we can take back our myth and spirit from the machine. Although the term “mechanical man” is a catch-all phrase, Lafitte shows that the term is also a meeting ground where extra-dimensional communications between different forms of matter occur. Every machine, android, robot, and cyborg arose from consciousness, and these mechanical men, whether real or fictive, offer us an opportunity to free ourselves from enslavement to materialism and awaken our imaginations to create our own realities.

Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism

Author : jan jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230113605
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism written by jan jagodzinski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place.

Community Gardening as Social Action

Author : Claire Nettle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317163427
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Community Gardening as Social Action written by Claire Nettle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a resurgence of community gardening over the past decade with a wide range of actors seeking to get involved, from health agencies aiming to increase fruit and vegetable consumption to radical social movements searching for symbols of non-capitalist ways of relating and occupying space. Community gardens have become a focal point for local activism in which people are working to contribute to food security, question the erosion of public space, conserve and improve urban environments, develop technologies of sustainable food production, foster community engagement and create neighbourhood solidarity. Drawing on in-depth case studies and social movement theory, Claire Nettle provides a new empirical and theoretical understanding of community gardening as a site of collective social action. This provides not only a more nuanced and complete understanding of community gardening, but also highlights its potential challenges to notions of activism, community, democracy and culture.

Who Runs the Artworld

Author : Brad Buckley
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1911450263
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Who Runs the Artworld written by Brad Buckley and published by Libri Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics examines the economics and mythologies of today s global artworld. It unmasks the complex web of relationships that now exist among high-profile curators, collectors, museum trustees and corporate sponsors, and the historic and ongoing complicity between the art and money markets. The book examines alternative models being deployed by curators and artists influenced by the 2008 global financial crisis and the international socio-political Occupy movement, with a particular focus on a renewed activism by artists. This activism is coupled with an institutional and social critique led by groups such as Liberate Tate, the Precarious Workers Brigade and Strike Debt. Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics brings together a diverse range of thinkers who draw on the disciplines of art theory, social sciences and cultural economics, and curatorship and the lived experience of artists. The contributors to this book are, in their respective contexts, working at the forefront of these compelling issues.