The Counsel Of Spent: Inventory - Softcover

Edited

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906012563 ISBN 13: 9781906012564

Publisher: Book Works, 2019

Synopsis

Formed in 1995, Inventory was a loosely associated group of writers, artists and theorists, currently guided by the efforts of two artists/heretics, Adam Scrivener and Paul Claydon, who advance a practical and theoretical notion of what they call fierce sociology. Capitalism continues to disempower us, with its corrosive mantra that it provides the best of all possible worlds and that we must stay silent and accept its violent side-effects as unfortunate necessity: we are told to tolerate its hereditary and dynastic aspects. We are told that technological change alone will bring the deleterious effects of profit and loss to heel. And so it appears, that unless we are driven to the brink of extinction, there will be no collective counter-attack of lasting value. This is the counsel of spent, asking how far we must be pushed as a species, as a planet, and how much more must be tolerated in the interests of survival before we awake and understand that there is no natural evolution under capitalism?

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Works
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906012563
• ISBN 13: 9781906012564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Nina Power