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File:Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Womens Rights East Central Europe Second Half of the Twentieth Century 2024.pdf
- Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights
- East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
"A compendium of one hundred sources, preceded by a short author’s bio and an introduction, this volume offers an English language selection of the most representative texts on feminism and women’s rights from East Central Europe between the end of World War Two and the early 1990s. While communist era is the primary focus, the interwar years and the post-1989 transition period also receive attention. All texts are new translations from the original.
The book is organised around themes instead of countries; the similarities and differences between nations are nevertheless pointed out. The editors consider women not only in their local context, but also in conjunction with other systems of thought—including shared agendas with socialism, liberalism, nationalism, and even eugenics.
The choice of texts seeks to demonstrate how feminism as political thought was shaped and organised in the region. They vary in type and format from political treatises, philosophy to literary works, even films and the visual arts, with the necessary inclusion of the personal and the private. Women’s political rights, right to education, their role in nation-building, women, and war (and especially women and peace) are part of the anthology, alongside the gendered division of labour, violence against women, the body, and reproduction."
Publisher Central European University Press, Budapest/Vienna/New York, November 2024 ISBN 9789633864548 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License 1065 pages PDF (9 mb)
Podcast. Facebook page. Publisher (archived). OAPEN.
2025-5-20
File:Cooking Up Collectivity 2025.pdf
- Cooking Up Collectivity
- So Happy Together
Edited by Amy Gowen, Florian Cramer, Katinka de Jonge, Simon Kentgens
"In recent years there has been a growing interest in collaborative and collective practices across and beyond the arts. But what does it actually mean to work collectively?
During a series of public happenings based around collectivity and being together, diverse self-organised collectives actively explored this question at Roodkapje, a laboratory for ART x LIVE x FOOD in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Through cooking, eating, and digesting together, questions were raised around what it means to be (or not to be) a citizen in a larger community; how to radically experiment with distribution of power in existing hierarchies; how to find ways of collective self-determination in inhospitable systems; and how to build collectivity with more than human collaborators.
Cooking Up Collectivity collects the recipes, questions, drawings, methods, menus, conversations, and other experimental outputs from this programme to encourage readers to build their own collectives and to self-organise."
With contributions by Amy Gowen, De Onkruidenier, Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats, Droom.Iris, Ellie McGuinness, Florian Cramer, Garvan Corr, Iconoclasistas, Jatiwangi art Factory, Katinka de Jonge, KraakSpreekUur / Squatting Info Hour, Marloes de Vries, One Field Fallow, Papaya Kuir, Paul Smullenberg, Questions Collective, Reading Room Rotterdam, Roodkapje & Hamburger Community, SOUPSPOON Collective, Simon Kentgens, Singing Club Rotterdam, Soyeon Lee, The Post Collective, Wan Ing Que.
Published by HumDrumPress, Roodkapje, Willem de Kooning Academy, and Hocus Bogus Publishing, Rotterdam, May 2025 PDF (2.5mb)
2025-5-13
File:Graziano Mars Medak Pirate Care Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity 2025.epub
- Pirate Care
- Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak
'In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a moment of struggle defined by the rollback of social welfare programs, the criminalisation of migration, and the right-wing clampdown on bodily autonomy, radical networks of care are fighting back.
From volunteer rescue boats in the Mediterranean to underground labs for preparing gender-affirming hormones, from the sharing of copyrighted health knowledge to the provision of abortion and contraception, people are reclaiming the means to care for one another in defiance of a system that devalues and exploits the labour of care.
Against atomised despair, Pirate Care shows that fighting back isn't only about legal and legislative changes but also about organizing, direct action, and disobedient care.'
'Putting the words pirate and care together already produces a spark of excitement, asking us to imagine how we are going to make the world together. A world in which what are often separate practices, and languages about practices, can come together. Where abolition, hacking, the commons, queerness and repair are connected. Where as good feminists we concern ourselves with the work and play that sustains us, in and against the empires of extraction. A most nourishing and encouraging little book'
- - McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto and Capital is Dead
'In times of rampant institutionalized cruelty and neglect, and as we witness the increasing commodification, weaponization and criminalization of care, this inspiring and stimulating collection celebrates care’s uncompromising radicality – from anonymous everyday solidarity to bold acts of resistance in the face of ruthless repression. Pirate Care is a breath of fiery courage against the suffocation of hope'
- - María Puig de la Bellacasa, author of Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
Published by Pluto Press in Jan 2025 Series: Vagabonds Paperback ISBN: 9780745349800 eBook ISBN: 9780745349817 110mm x 215mm EPUB (594kb)
Podcast (hosted by David Bollier, Jan 2025). Event (MayDay Rooms, London, 5 Feb 2025). Series. Publisher.
2025-2-3
File:Infrastructure Aesthetics 2024.pdf
- Infrastructure Aesthetics
Edited by Solveig Daugaard, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Frederik Tygstrup
"An upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied. In response, this book introduces the concept of infrastructure aesthetics into the study of culture.
The concept is drawn from infrastructure studies, media theory, and aesthetic theory. This volume develops it further, addressing:
- the analytical challenge of working with works that blur the boundaries between art and infrastructure, both historically and in the present,
- the aesthetic problem of assessing artistic forms that operate on an infrastructural level, and
- the politics of artistic agency on a social level, beyond the work's content or message.
As the relation between artworks and their institutional and social settings becomes infrastructural in nature, we need to move beyond the reductive division of the study of artworks into production, articulation, and reception. This book provides its readers with an innovative conceptual toolbox designed for precisely this task, as well as a forceful set of exemplary case studies applying the concepts in theory and practice."
Contributors: Tanya Ravn Ag, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mathias Danbolt, Solveig Daugaard, Line Ellegaard, Kristoffer Gansing, Anna Meera Gaonkar, Rasmus Holmboe, Daniel Irrgang, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Eva la Cour, Joana Monbaron, Mathias Overgaard, Xenia Brown Pallesen, Kristine Ringsager, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Frida Sandström, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Amalie Skovmøller, Frederik Tygstrup, Katrine Wallevik.
Publisher De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 4 November 2024 ISBN 9783111349961 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License vii+418 pages PDF (61mb), PDFs EPUB (4mb) HTML
2024-11-25
File:Rousseau Sternfeld eds Radio as Radical Education 2024.pdf
Radio as Radical Education
Edited by Gregoire Rousseau and Nora Sternfeld
"Welcome dear listeners and readers. Today, we’re presenting the book Radio as Radical Education. It brings together the voices and ideas of people who have worked on, with and in radio while understanding their radio projects as education projects or understanding radio as radical education."
With contributions by Alessandra Pomarico, Anja Steidinger, Damien Pollard, Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Giulia Crisci, Gregoire Rousseau, Julia Stolba, Minerva Juolahti, Nikolay Oleynikov, Nora Sternfeld, Özge Açıkkol, Seda Yıldız
Design and Concept: Maja Redlin
Coordination: Malin Kuht
Proofreading: Faith Gibson
Translation: Anthony DePasquale
A collaboration between HFBK Hamburg and Station of Commons Published by Station of Commons, Helsinki, October 2024 ISBN ePDF 9781350030237 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License CC-BY-SA 108 pages PDF (2mb)
Project, via. Book launch.
2024-10-09
