Isabelle Fremeaux, Jay Jordan

We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself (eBook, ePUB)

Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.

They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.

Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.

Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745345895
• Artikelnr.: 62942551

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Marc Herbst Tempests Part I: Seeding Scream
Disobedient Desires
Following Swallows
Extinction Machine
Rebel Bocage Part II: Germinating Departure Lounge
Desertion
Mud and ACAB
Insurrectionary Inhabiting
Building in the Ruins
A Discipline of Attention
Love and Forgetting Part III: Rooting Offensive Defense
Everyday Magic
Compos(t)ing Together
Medieval Futurisms
Victory and Revenge
Gambles and Barricades of Paper Part IV: Flourishing No Commoning without Commoners
Synergies and Regards
No Commoners without Rituals
Life is Feeling
200 Years of Art and the World Is Getting Worse
An Art of Life FUCK 'IT'! Gratitudes Notes