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Reprint der schweizerischen Literaturzeitschrift drehpunkt von der Nullnummer 1968 bis zum Jahrgang 1979. 1767 Seiten! Guter Zustand, Papier allerdings recht stark nachgedunkelt.
Les opinions les plus répandues sont exprimées par le troisième cas : vocable vide de sens (Franc-Tireur, Camus, etc.) et le premier cas : espion soviétique (Aspects de la France, Breton, G. Mollet, etc.). Cependant quelques personnes parmi nos correspondants soutiennent hardiment la deuxième éventualité : cadeau somptuaire. Il est donc inutile de s'attarder sur ce problème, aussi embrouillé que tous les problèmes que cette société feint de se poser. Et sur une solution aussi aveuglante que toutes les autres.
Full colour graphic zine with contributions by Olstad, Mademoiselle F, Sidjay, EXP, Neurobug, Gwen, Korpal, Yano, Gernier, Chris. 36 pages.
Hat einige leichte Bleistiftanstreichungen, sonst sehr gut
EA von 1982. Ein klein wenig fleckig im Schnitt aber allgemein noch sehr guter Zustand.
Karlheinz Deschner: Das Christentum im Urteil seiner Gegner. Band 1+ 2Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, Rücken gebleicht, innen gut
Umschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, leicht verfärbt, innen gut.
Text + Kritik Heft 2/3 zu Hans Henny Jahnn - erweiterte Ausgabe von 1970.Umschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, innen gut
Mit Widmung des Autors an "Kurt Meyer", signiert "Hans". Innen mit ein paar leichten BleistiftanstreichungenIn diesem Buch wird die Gestalt des Lehrers ins Zentrum des wissenschaftlich-technischen Zeitalters gerückt. Weil der Lehrer für das Fortbestehen der Gesellschaft eine politische und kulturelle Schlüsselstellung innehat, privilegiert ihn die Gesellschaft und beschneidet zugleich seine existenzielle, pädagogische und politische Freiheit. Die hier vereinigten Aufsätze verteidigen diese Freiheiten des Lehrers kompromisslos, kämpfen gegen die auf Lehrer angesetzte politische Repression, gegen die Entfremdung der Schule von ihrem pädagogischen Auftrag und gegen den duckmäuserischen Abmarsch der Pädagogen ins Getto. Gesucht wird nach der Gestalt des Lehrers und einer Form der Schule, die, wie zur Revolutionszeit, ihren pädagogischen Sinn wieder sehen in der Emanzipation der künftigen Bürger für eine sich emanzipierende Gesellschaft, in der sich Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit wechselseitig bedingen und gemeinsam den Raum öffnen für die Solidarität unter vernünftigen Zielen.
Schutzumschlag stark abgenutzt (siehe Scan), innen noch gut
A counterculture history of art and experimental politics that turns the world inside out The Way Out examines the radical political and hedonist imaginaries of the experimental fringes of the UK Underground from 1961 to 1991 By examining the relations between collective and collaborative practices with an explicit agenda of cultural revolution, Kasper Opstrup charts a hidden history of experiments with cultural engineering, expanding current discussions of art, medias, politics, radical education and the occult revival. Even though the theatres of operation have changed with the rise of the Internet and a globalised finance economy, these imaginaries still raise questions that speak directly to the present. Here we encounter a series of figures – including Alexander Trocchi, R. D. Laing, Joseph Berke, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge – that blurred the lines between inner and outer, the invisible and the material. Four singular forms of speculative techniques for igniting an invisible insurrection with cultural means make up the central case studies: the sigma project, London Anti-University, Academy 23 and thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. Contained within these imaginaries is a new type of action university: a communal affair that would improvise a new type of social relation into existence by de-programming and de-conditioning us without any blueprints for the future besides to make it happen. Instead of being turned upside down, the world was to be changed from the inside out. Bio: Kasper Opstrup is a writer and researcher of radical culture, specialising in concatenations of art/literature, radical politics, and occultism as counter-culture and underground phenomenon. Currently he is working on a book examining aesthetic undercurrents of mystical utopianism from surrealism to the contemporary tentatively called An Imaginary Kingdom in the Wastelands of the Real – on Art, Esotericism and the Politics of Hope.
The wave of political demonstrations since the Battle of Seattle in 2001 have crystallised a new trend in left-wing politics. Modern protest movements are grounding their actions in both Marxism and Anarchism, fighting for radical social change in terms that have nothing to do with the taking of state power. This is in clear opposition to the traditional Marxist theory of revolution which centres on the overthrow of government. In this book, John Holloway asks how we can reformulate our understanding of revolution as the struggle against power, not for power. After a century of failed attempts by revolutionary and reformist movements to bring about radical social change, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis. John Holloway opens up the theoretical debate, reposing some of the basic concepts of Marxism in a critical development of the subversive Marxist tradition represented by Adorno, Bloch and Lukacs, amongst others, and grounded in a rethinking of Marx's concept of 'fetishisation'-- how doing is transformed into being. John Holloway is a Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. His publications include Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010), Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto, 2005), Zapatista! Rethinking Revolution in Mexico(co-editor, Pluto, 1998) and Global Capital, National State and The Politics of Money (co-editor, 1994).
Our first book, published by the historic Charles H Kerr Publishing Company, presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. We chronicle the struggles of everyday people in the midst of the pandemic and argue that China’s rapid but fragile economic growth has created the social and biological conditions for new and deadly viruses, of which COVID-19 was merely the latest iteration. Through on-the-ground interviews, reports and analysis, Social Contagion offers a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state, as well as the self-organizing survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. We conclude that the pandemic has enabled a new mode of counterinsurgent governance, one rooted in decades of institutional experimentation and an emergent theory of statecraft. Social Contagion and other material on microbiological class war in China includes an expanded and updated version of “Social Contagion,” our widely read article originally published on February 26, 2020, and collects interviews and translations with activists on the ground. The book concludes with a new, long-form article on the role that the pandemic played in China’s ongoing state-building project.
ln our second issue we turn our focus to the frontiers of crisis and capital in China. We expand our conceptual framework here, digging more deeply into some of our central theoretical concerns while also providing coherent narratives of historical events and contemporary faultlines. As always, we include interviews and translations alongside our own original work. This issue also contains, for the first time, two commissioned articles by authors outside of Chuǎng, each a regional specialist focusing on some portion of China’s borderlands. We take these borders as our starting point. This issue therefore begins with the expanding frontier of capital itself, with our second long-form article on the economic history of China, “Red Dust: The Transition to Capitalism in China,” detailing the process by which the socialist developmental regime was dismantled and incorporated into the capitalist economy. We then move on to China’s literal frontiers, our two intakes exploring tensions in Xinjiang and Vietnam. Finally, we include a series of pieces exploring the frontiers of struggle and repression within Chinese industry.
October 2008 | 216 pages | ISSN: 1943-8281 Bring out your dead Introduction to the debate between Theorie Communiste and Gilles Dauvé When Insurrections Die Gilles Dauvé Normative History and the Communist Essence of the Proletariat Théorie Communiste Human, all too human? Gilles Dauvé Love of Labour? Love of Labour Lost… Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic Much Ado About Nothing Théorie Communiste Afterword
Past, present and future of the Endnotes project. THE HOLDING PATTERN Since 2007, states have been forced to undertake extraordinary actions. Bailouts have shifted private debts onto public balance sheets. And the world’s central banks are spending billions of dollars, every month, to convince capital to invest in a trickle. So far these state interventions have managed to stall the unfolding crisis. Yet its petrification has been the petrification of class struggle. Like the crisis itself, the struggles of 2011–2013 entered a holding pattern, unable to venture beyond the weak unity—defined by anti-austerity, anti-police, and anti-corruption sentiments—that was established in the movement of the squares. THE LOGIC OF GENDER Marxist-feminists have employed a number of binary oppositions: productive/reproductive, paid/unpaid and public/private. We interrogate these categories and propose new ones. Starting from the specificities of the production and reproduction of labour-power, we define gender as the anchoring of individuals into two separate spheres of social reproduction. We trace the development of these spheres through the history of the capitalist mode of production, and survey the dynamics of gender in the recent crisis, which we characterize as arise of the abject. A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS A reading of the 2011 England riots and British student movement against a backdrop of decades-long social processes of abjection, class decomposition and the tendential disintegration of the wage relation. LOGISTICS, COUNTERLOGISTICS AND THE COMMUNIST PROSPECT Jasper Bernes An inquiry into the consequences of “the logistics revolution” for contemporary struggles. In light of the disaggregation and diffusion of productive capacity across the globe, direct seizure of the means of production no longer describes an implementable project for the majority of proletarians. New horizons and prospects materialise. THE LIMIT POINT OF CAPITALIST EQUALITY Chris Chen Without taking identity, cultural difference, or normative "privilege" as fundamental categories of anti-racist analysis, this article sketches a racial genealogy of superfluous populations as a constitutive feature of the emergence and spatial expansion of capitalism. The possibility of abolishing "race" as superfluity is therefore bound to contemporary anti-capitalist struggles, and vice-versa. SPONTANEITY, MEDIATION, RUPTURE How can we recover the key concepts of revolutionary theory today, that is, after the end of the workers’ movement? We offer the following reflections on three concepts — spontaneity, mediation, rupture — as an attempt to re-fashion the core of revolutionary theory, for our times. By taking cognisance of the gap that separates us from the past, we hope to extract from past theories something of use to us in the present.
Guy Debord was the most influential figure in the Situationist International, the subversive group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. His book The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty languages and is arguably the most important radical book of the twentieth century. This edition is a revised edition of the first English translation which was first published in 1970 by Black & Red in Detroit. Revised in 1977, this is a recent print run from 2018.