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Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
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Issue 8 Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
Available Fall 2011
Amidst the throws of editing, we bark publicity and do pre-release publicity.
Find out more about the issue
advance order today!
Contributors currently Include; Ultra-red, Victor Tupitsyn. Meg Wade, Cuevas-Hewitt, Survival Kit 2011, Jaleh Mansoor, Matthias Regan, Sue Bell Yank, Ron Sakolsky, Olive McKeon, Marc J. Leger, Ian Millis, Christopher Lee, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Tim Jensen, Materials and Applications, Libertad Guerra, Louis Guerra, Khristopher Flack, Public Laboratory, Protest and Stagnation (Manfred Rainer, Hannah Oellinger, Alice Neusiedler, Jakob Brossmann, Tom Streitfellner and Cornelia Lein), Andrea Cook, Gavin Grindon, Marco Cuevas-Hewitt. Other articles TBA.
When stepping out of an ironic relationship to "current events" by becoming broke or really angry or when we to act consciously to undo and supersede the shit pile that is coming down on us like a waterfall of crap… one realization we are left with is, "oh, I can do things."... read more about the issue below
1. Issue 8 description
2. New Web Special By Gavin Grindon
3. New Book by Frequent Journal contributor Marc J. Leger
4. LLano Del Rio Collective call
Find out more about the issue
advance order today!
Contributors currently Include; Ultra-red, Victor Tupitsyn. Meg Wade, Cuevas-Hewitt, Survival Kit 2011, Jaleh Mansoor, Matthias Regan, Sue Bell Yank, Ron Sakolsky, Olive McKeon, Marc J. Leger, Ian Millis, Christopher Lee, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Tim Jensen, Materials and Applications, Libertad Guerra, Louis Guerra, Khristopher Flack, Public Laboratory, Protest and Stagnation (Manfred Rainer, Hannah Oellinger, Alice Neusiedler, Jakob Brossmann, Tom Streitfellner and Cornelia Lein), Andrea Cook, Gavin Grindon, Marco Cuevas-Hewitt. Other articles TBA.
When stepping out of an ironic relationship to "current events" by becoming broke or really angry or when we to act consciously to undo and supersede the shit pile that is coming down on us like a waterfall of crap… one realization we are left with is, "oh, I can do things."... read more about the issue below
1. Issue 8 description
2. New Web Special By Gavin Grindon
3. New Book by Frequent Journal contributor Marc J. Leger
4. LLano Del Rio Collective call
5. Tahrir Square Documents
6. Ultra-red Events in LA
7. Idiocy
8. Just because( very good articles to check out.)
6. Ultra-red Events in LA
7. Idiocy
8. Just because( very good articles to check out.)
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1. Issue 8 description
When stepping out of an ironic relationship to "current events" by becoming broke or really angry or when we to act consciously to undo and supersede the shit pile that is coming down on us like a waterfall of crap… one realization we are left with is, "oh, I can do things."
Issue number 8 (# eight) of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest is primarily concerned with confirming, detailing and extenuating these thoughts about doing stuff… making stuff, making change, radical change. Through historic, theoretical, and practice based investigations, this issue identifies specifics within a broad range of approaches to cultural work… from the immediacies of occupation and political organization to the furthering distances of the gallery and the timelessness of human consciousness.
In each situation, for each article, the question for each writers is- what is the possibility for culture to advance the cause of being, of equality, of justice, of health and happiness, of fulfillment?
And how?
This issue is primarily focused on artists and cultural works- it deeply embraces the activist potentials of creations. Since we began conceptualizing the issue, the Middle East, Wisconsin, Spain, Japan, Chile, Planned Parenthood, Britain and so many places have exploded- the particulars of the particulars have been chronicled elsewhere. Instead, we as a journal have some capacity to think forward into what must be done outside of the heat and reactivity.
In hindsight, our 7th issue, Go Post-Money! was too early.
We had hoped that its chronicling of post-economic crisis art projects would contribute to a broad-based re-evaluation of the terms of engagement within either/or capitalist social relations or specific professional social relations.
We imagined that by now, 2011, the US and corresponding points would be in full left-wing popular/political insurrection with articulate policy statements and expanding alternative economies threatening a criminally revealed capitalist order. We were wrong- naive even. Naive not to the potential for movement but naive instead to the hard work needed to be done between here and a better world.
So then, to do stuff, we call this issue Grassroots Modernism.
Grassroots Modernism- because we situate the creative potential for future-embracing productivity that situates its potencies outside of the normative.
Contributors currently Include; Ultra-red, Victor Tupitsyn. Meg Wade, Cuevas-Hewitt, Survival Kit 2011, Jaleh Mansoor, Matthias Regan, Sue Bell Yank, Ron Sakolsky, Olive McKeon, Marc J. Leger, Ian Millis, Christopher Lee, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Tim Jensen, Materials and Applications, Libertad Guerra, Louis Guerra, Khristopher Flack, Public Laboratory, Protest and Stagnation (Manfred Rainer, Hannah Oellinger, Alice Neusiedler, Jakob Brossmann, Tom Streitfellner and Cornelia Lein), Andrea Cook, Gavin Grindon, Marco Cuevas-Hewitt. Other articles TBA.
This issue acknowledges that there are 1000s of unexplored or underexplored angles or territories not complicit with neo-liberalism or capitalism. And that culture and politics can produce these angles.
From affects and states of suspension, to strategies or working with timeframes and states of psychic and ecological development to the concrete production of radical subjectivities through graphics or memes or community education, issue 8 navigates (in the sloppy way or journal does) the obviously hidden multiplicity of approaches.
To suit the moment, some articles approach occupation and confrontation; others the more long-term scale which might encompass or be supercede radicality.
1. Issue 8 description
When stepping out of an ironic relationship to "current events" by becoming broke or really angry or when we to act consciously to undo and supersede the shit pile that is coming down on us like a waterfall of crap… one realization we are left with is, "oh, I can do things."
Issue number 8 (# eight) of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest is primarily concerned with confirming, detailing and extenuating these thoughts about doing stuff… making stuff, making change, radical change. Through historic, theoretical, and practice based investigations, this issue identifies specifics within a broad range of approaches to cultural work… from the immediacies of occupation and political organization to the furthering distances of the gallery and the timelessness of human consciousness.
In each situation, for each article, the question for each writers is- what is the possibility for culture to advance the cause of being, of equality, of justice, of health and happiness, of fulfillment?
And how?
This issue is primarily focused on artists and cultural works- it deeply embraces the activist potentials of creations. Since we began conceptualizing the issue, the Middle East, Wisconsin, Spain, Japan, Chile, Planned Parenthood, Britain and so many places have exploded- the particulars of the particulars have been chronicled elsewhere. Instead, we as a journal have some capacity to think forward into what must be done outside of the heat and reactivity.
In hindsight, our 7th issue, Go Post-Money! was too early.
We had hoped that its chronicling of post-economic crisis art projects would contribute to a broad-based re-evaluation of the terms of engagement within either/or capitalist social relations or specific professional social relations.
We imagined that by now, 2011, the US and corresponding points would be in full left-wing popular/political insurrection with articulate policy statements and expanding alternative economies threatening a criminally revealed capitalist order. We were wrong- naive even. Naive not to the potential for movement but naive instead to the hard work needed to be done between here and a better world.
So then, to do stuff, we call this issue Grassroots Modernism.
Grassroots Modernism- because we situate the creative potential for future-embracing productivity that situates its potencies outside of the normative.
Contributors currently Include; Ultra-red, Victor Tupitsyn. Meg Wade, Cuevas-Hewitt, Survival Kit 2011, Jaleh Mansoor, Matthias Regan, Sue Bell Yank, Ron Sakolsky, Olive McKeon, Marc J. Leger, Ian Millis, Christopher Lee, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Tim Jensen, Materials and Applications, Libertad Guerra, Louis Guerra, Khristopher Flack, Public Laboratory, Protest and Stagnation (Manfred Rainer, Hannah Oellinger, Alice Neusiedler, Jakob Brossmann, Tom Streitfellner and Cornelia Lein), Andrea Cook, Gavin Grindon, Marco Cuevas-Hewitt. Other articles TBA.
This issue acknowledges that there are 1000s of unexplored or underexplored angles or territories not complicit with neo-liberalism or capitalism. And that culture and politics can produce these angles.
From affects and states of suspension, to strategies or working with timeframes and states of psychic and ecological development to the concrete production of radical subjectivities through graphics or memes or community education, issue 8 navigates (in the sloppy way or journal does) the obviously hidden multiplicity of approaches.
To suit the moment, some articles approach occupation and confrontation; others the more long-term scale which might encompass or be supercede radicality.
…….
2, New Web Special By Gavin Grindon
Journal contributor wrote a kick ass essay for the Oxford University Press entitled “XXX” We loved it so much we asked if we could include the article in our web-only section to which he responded, “yes” . Find a link to the downloadable pdf here.
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3. New Book by Frequent Journal Contributor Marc J. Leger
Marc James Leger has become a frequent contributor to our pages. Cheers to him for his productivity and for his releasing of this book since we last wrote you all-
Brave New Avant Garde published by Zero Books
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4. Llano Del Rio Collective call
Our friends at the Llano Del Rio group need your help identifying jerks in the Los Angeles Area.
Also their most recent mapping publication, Scores For the City is available in Los Angeles from the Collective (info on the website) or through Halfletter Press outside of the So-Cal Biome.
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5. Tahrir Square Documents
Friends and collaborators at Occupy Everything helped translate this amazing documentation project- the Tahrir Documentation Project.
It is a scanned collection of posters and hand-bills taken from the recent and ongoing Tahrir Square events. Each scan also is accompanied with an English language translation.
Check out the project here...
2, New Web Special By Gavin Grindon
Journal contributor wrote a kick ass essay for the Oxford University Press entitled “XXX” We loved it so much we asked if we could include the article in our web-only section to which he responded, “yes” . Find a link to the downloadable pdf here.
…….
3. New Book by Frequent Journal Contributor Marc J. Leger
Marc James Leger has become a frequent contributor to our pages. Cheers to him for his productivity and for his releasing of this book since we last wrote you all-
Brave New Avant Garde published by Zero Books
…….
4. Llano Del Rio Collective call
Our friends at the Llano Del Rio group need your help identifying jerks in the Los Angeles Area.
Also their most recent mapping publication, Scores For the City is available in Los Angeles from the Collective (info on the website) or through Halfletter Press outside of the So-Cal Biome.
……..
5. Tahrir Square Documents
Friends and collaborators at Occupy Everything helped translate this amazing documentation project- the Tahrir Documentation Project.
It is a scanned collection of posters and hand-bills taken from the recent and ongoing Tahrir Square events. Each scan also is accompanied with an English language translation.
Check out the project here...
……..
6. Ultra-red Events in LA
Following on the 7 July teach-in held at LACE in Hollywood on the scandal in Bell, Ultra-red and their community partners Union de Vecinos and Woodcraft Rangers will conduct a walking tour of the City of Maywood focusing on the experiments in participatory democracy and grassroots environmental justice taking place in the area.
The sound walk will last for approximately 2.5 hours and involve walking approximately 2.5 miles. We will be listening to testimonies from local organizers, visiting key sites of local struggle, participating in group discussion and listening to the City around us.
RSVP either by phone or email. Visit their website for more info
The sound walk will last for approximately 2.5 hours and involve walking approximately 2.5 miles. We will be listening to testimonies from local organizers, visiting key sites of local struggle, participating in group discussion and listening to the City around us.
RSVP either by phone or email. Visit their website for more info
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7. Idiocy
In some strange (but not surprising) stroke of neo-liberal legality, its now criminal to call things Universities in Denmark that don't have the full power of the state or global capital behind them. This is just one more creepy thing we think your aware of but seems like a new front in this State of Exception we call the present. Check out the Copenhagen Free University who was on the recieving end of email fun with some ministers and who informed us all of this joy.
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8. Just because( very good articles to check out.)
Because 8 bullet points are better then seven..
Audio--- Workerism, Autonomia and Lessons from the Italian Left; What can 2011 learn from Italy in the 1970s
Video---Jodi Dean Talk at the recently now homeless No-Space (Change You Want to See gallery) in Brooklyn. (they also helped organize this little gem. (victory)
Lecture-- Creative Times Brian Holmes Lecture (ok, its video too)
Video---Jodi Dean Talk at the recently now homeless No-Space (Change You Want to See gallery) in Brooklyn. (they also helped organize this little gem. (victory)
Lecture-- Creative Times Brian Holmes Lecture (ok, its video too)
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