"Taking its point of departure from the writings of Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and Fredric Jameson, this book is a kind of training manual for understanding the role and place of reading and writing within the political domain, and for imagining-across time but without losing the specificity of particular historical moments-the grounds for a collective political imagination able to extract hope from what Cadava and Melsio call the archives of communal grief"--
"Taking its point of departure from the writings of Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and Fredric Jameson, this book is a kind of training manual for understanding the role and place of reading and writing within the political domain, and for imagining-across time but without losing the specificity of particular historical moments-the grounds for a collective political imagination able to extract hope from what Cadava and Melsio call the archives of communal grief"--
Eduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. His books include Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, Emerson and the Climates of History, and Paper Graveyards. Sara Nadal-Melsió is a New York City-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher. Presently writer-in-residence at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, she has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, SOMA in Mexico City, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals, edited volumes, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of Alrededor de/ Around, and the editor of two special issues on cinema, The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and The Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She has recently cocurated a show on Allora & Calzadilla for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it, To Be All Ears, To Be in the World: Acoustic Relation in Allora & Calzadilla, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis, A Modest Proposal: Puerto Rico’s Crucible. Her book Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: "The Red what reading did ..." 9 I. Politically Read 29 II. Multiplicity 43 III. Massification 51 IV. General Strike 59 V. Rosa's Casket 71 VI. Panoramas of Violence 89 VII. Depositions 97 VIII. Theological Figurations 117 IX. Messianic Promises 125 X. Benjamin's Boxes 133 XI. An Unusual Pedagogy 145 XII. A Ship of Fools 151 XIII. Communal grief 169 XIV. A Red Ray; or, Sociology's Supplement 177 XV. The Shibboleth of Race 195 XVI. The Hammer of Social Revolution 221 XVII. The Leviathanism of the Vanquished 227 XVIII. Angelus Novus: A Militant Emblem 233 XIX. The Second Comet 247 XX. To the Planetarium 263 XXI. A Red Common-Wealth 285 Acknowledgments 335 Notes 338 List of Illustrations 386 Index 388
Introduction: "The Red what reading did ..." 9 I. Politically Read 29 II. Multiplicity 43 III. Massification 51 IV. General Strike 59 V. Rosa's Casket 71 VI. Panoramas of Violence 89 VII. Depositions 97 VIII. Theological Figurations 117 IX. Messianic Promises 125 X. Benjamin's Boxes 133 XI. An Unusual Pedagogy 145 XII. A Ship of Fools 151 XIII. Communal grief 169 XIV. A Red Ray; or, Sociology's Supplement 177 XV. The Shibboleth of Race 195 XVI. The Hammer of Social Revolution 221 XVII. The Leviathanism of the Vanquished 227 XVIII. Angelus Novus: A Militant Emblem 233 XIX. The Second Comet 247 XX. To the Planetarium 263 XXI. A Red Common-Wealth 285 Acknowledgments 335 Notes 338 List of Illustrations 386 Index 388
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