Michael Bakunin: God and the State (1882/1970)
Filed under book | Tags: · anarchism, bourgeoisie, communism, history, metaphysics, philosophy of history, religion
A colorful, charismatic personality, violent, ebullient, and energetic, Bakunin was one of two poles between which 19th and early 20th-century anarchism was formed. Although it was never finished, God and the State, his only major work, is the torso of a giant. A basic anarchist and radical document for generations, this book makes one of the clearest statements of the anarchist philosophy of history: religion by its nature is an impoverishment, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity.
With a New Introduction and Index of Persons by Paul Avrich
Publisher Dover Publications, 1970
This Dover edition, first published in 1970, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the edition published in 1916 by Mother Earth Publishing Association, New York.
ISBN 048622483X, 9780486224831
89 pages
PDF (updated on 2014-9-5)
Comments (2)This Is Tomorrow (1956)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · 1950s, architecture, art, art history, exhibition, pop art, united kingdom
“This Is Tomorrow was a seminal art exhibition in August 1956 at London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, facilitated by curator Bryan Robertson. The core of the exhibition was the ICA Independent Group.
It has become an iconic exhibition notable not only for the arrival of the naming of Pop Art but also as a captured moment for the multi-disciplinary merging of the disciplines of art and architecture.
The exhibition included artists, architects, musicians and graphic designers working together in 12 teams—an example of multi-disciplinary collaboration that was still unusual. Each group took as their starting point the human senses and the theme of habitation.
The exhibition catalogue featured essays by Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway. McHale wrote the text for the page Are they Cultured? and it was intended to be featured with the McHale designed collage that got mispaginated in the catalogue.”
Edited by Theo Grosby
Designed by Edward Wright
Commentary: this is tomorrow 2 (2008), James Lingwood (2009).
Reinterpretation (2019)
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Comments (2)Verena Andermatt Conley: Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · deep ecology, ecofeminism, ecology, environment, feminism, poststructuralism, structuralism
Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness – or non-awareness – in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today’s concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50s and 60s.
The author considers key texts by influential figures such as Michael Serres, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel de Certeau, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. Ecopolitics rehabilitates some ecological components of French intellectual thought of the past thirty years, and reassesses French poststructural thinkers who explicitly deal with ecology in their work.
Publisher Routledge, 1997
Opening Out: Feminism for Today Series
ISBN 0415102847, 9780415102841
188 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-2-5)
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