A User’s Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible (2011)

This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.

Produced by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, London, December 2010
This version coordinated by Minor Compositions, May 2011
ISBN 978-1-57027-218-9
62 pages
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