Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life - Softcover

Shukaitis, Stevphen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570272085 ISBN 13: 9781570272080

Publisher: Autonomedia, 2009

Synopsis

Nonfiction. Political Science. Criticism and Theory. Art. "IMAGINAL MACHINES explores with humor and wit the condition of art and politics in contemporary capitalism. It reviews the potentials and limits of liberatory art (from surrealism to Tom Waits) while charting the always-resurgent creations of the collective imagination. Shukaitis exhibits a remarkable theoretical breadth, bringing together the work of Castoriadis, the Situationists, and autonomous Marxism to define a new task for militant research: constructing imaginal machines that escape capitalism. IMAGINAL MACHINES is truly a book that makes a path by walking"--Silvia Federici, author of CALIBAN AND THE WITCH: WOMEN, THE BODY, AND PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION.

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About the Author

Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at Autonomedia and lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009) and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of CONSTITUENT IMAGINATION: MILITANT INVESTIGATIONS, COLLECTIVE THEORIZATION (AK Press, 2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570272085
• ISBN 13: 9781570272080
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256