Issue 8, Jrnl of Aesthetics & Protest now Print

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328 pages designed by Mathis Pfaffli and Markus Dressen
(the printed issue- gorgeous; the content- right on the moment of potential movements.)
18$
 
 
Issue 8's been available online for some time.
The issue is now available to buy in print.
Your purchase supports our work
 
Mapping the imminant potential of resistence and change, we call it
grassroots modernism.
 
Distributing from the US and Europe.
Distribution support by Nadalex
 
Printed with support from the Metabolic Studio
Issue 8 is a project of the Armory Center for the Arts’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program.
 
email us for preview and review copies.
Issues will soon be at ProQM (Berlin), Bluestockings (NYC), Skylight (Los Angeles), Quimby's (Chicago), Housmans (London)
 
1. Issue 8
1.5 Institutional Rates/Review Copies
2. Nadalex Distro
3. OMG, resistence.
4. London and other publicity events for issue 8
5. Books we are suggesting, plugging
6. MayDay (justseeds posters and occupy)
7. brief thank yous
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1. Issue 8
 
Contributors: Marc James Léger, Marco Cuevas-Hewitt, Meg Wade, Jaleh Mansoor, Mattias Regan, Victor Tupitsyn, Ron Sakolsky, Gabriel Mindel Salomon, Ian Milliss, Gavin Grindon, Olive McKeon, Sue Bell Yank, Survival Kit Collective, Protest and Stagnation (Austria), Kristopher Flack, Tim Jensen, Libertad Guerra, Luis Guerra, Christopher Lee, Public Laboratory, Ultra-red.
 
As OWS enters a new phase, we again present, for your consideration a true multiplicity of tactics.
View the introductory editorial here.

Grassroots Modernism: a multi-valent, self-contradictory sustainable/unsastainable movement machine.
Identifying imminant people-power in relationship to the "local" (ecological, social, historical) environment,
while in dialog with something bigger.

Perspectives on time/space, artistic and cultural creation and organizing towards a just, sustainable, equitable and fun world.
 
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1.5 Institutional Rates/Review Copies
 
Please contact us for institutional rates and review copies.
 
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2. Nadalex Distro
 
distro.nadalex.net is the online bookstore for Sound &  Language
Distribution, a distributor of printed matter and recordings, owned and
operated by Alexis Bhagat.

Sound&  Language Distribution is based in New York City at Wordship
II--the art-literary factory of Richard Kostelanetz. We distribute items
from Kostelanetz's Archae Editions. Sound & Language Distribution is the
North American Distributor for Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press.
 
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3. OMG, resistence.
 
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4. London and other publicity events for issue 8
 
Giving props where props are due. We just spent a weekend in London where
we had an amazing time.
We presented a talk based on the ideas of issue 8 at Platform London.
We sold books and talked on a panel at Publish and Be Damned.
Keep your ears open for upcoming events in NYC, Berlin, Leipzig.
 
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5. Books we are suggesting, plugging
 
a. Revolution as an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective
     by Mary Patten, distro by our pals at Half Letter Press.
b. Culture Beyond Oil, but the good people at Liberate Tate.
c. There is too much going on now. Its all good.
d. This stuff gets on TV elsewhere...
e. Haven't read it, great contributors, Praxis... Beautiful Trouble.
 
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6. MayDay (justseeds posters and occupy)
 
Organizing for a OWS mayday general strike always seems good.
Occuprint mass-postering project on kickstarter
 
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7. Thank you to all our writers and friends.
Thank you to the Metabolic Studio, Outpost for Contemporary Art, and the Armory Center for the arts...

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