Howard Slater: Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings (2012/2013) [Serbo-Croatian]

In this collection of writings, Howard Slater improvises around what Walter Benjamin could have meant by the phrase ‘affective classes’. This ‘messianic shard’ and its possible implications leads Slater to develop a therapeutic micro-politics by way of a mourning for the Workers’ Movement and a grappling with the ‘becomings of capital’.

The essay “Anomie/Bonhomie” is the keystone of this book which also features tributary texts and poems drawn from the past ten years. These supplementary texts approach such themes as exodus, species-being, surrealist precedents, poetic language and the possibilities for collective ‘affective’ practices to combat capitalism’s colonisation of the psyche.

Originally published by Mute, London, 2012
Serbo-Croatian edition: Anomija/Bonomija i drugi tekstovi
Translated by Dušan Đorđević Mileusnić, Đorđe Čolić, kuda.org, GKP (under copyleft license)
Publisher kuda.org, Novi sad, 2013
ISBN 978-86-88567-06-0
164 pages
via Anthony Iles

commentary and English version of the Preface/Afterword and additional material (Mute.org)
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