We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (Vagabonds)

Fremeaux, Isabelle,Jordan, Jay

ISBN 10: 0745345875 / ISBN 13: 9780745345871

Published by Pluto Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (Vagabonds)
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745345875
• ISBN 13: 9780745345871
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.

Jay Jordan is co-founder of Reclaim the Streets (1995-2000) and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and co-author of We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (Verso, 2003) and A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible (Minor Compositions, 2011). They are a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.