Christoph Spehr: Gleicher als andere. Eine Grundlegung der freien Kooperation (2003) [German]
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Die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat immer wieder gezeigt, dass Alternativen jenseits des Staatssozialismus, der die politische Form einer Demokratie verwarf, und einer kapitalistisch dominierten Gesellschaft, die sich zunehmend mit Institutionen einer Demokratie verband, kein Bestand hatten. Der “dritte Weg” des demokratischen Sozialismus bleib eine Vision. Soll dies nicht als bloßer Zufall der Geschichte abgetan werden, muß die Frage beantwortet werden, durch welche wirtschaftliche und politische Ordnung soziale Gleichheit verwirklicht werden kann, ohne dabei des Grundprinzip freier demokratiscsher Willensbildung aufzugeben.
Weitere Beiträge von: Frigga Haug, Ralf Krämer, Stefan Meretz, Dorothee Richter, Babette Scurrell, Uli Weiß, Frieder Otto Wolf u.a.
Publisher Karl Dietz, Berlin, 2003
Texte/Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung; Bd. 9
GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
ISBN 3320020390
CrimethInc: Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · anarchism, collaboration, cultural resistance, independent media, social movements
Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook is an anarchist book released by the CrimethInc. collective in December 2004. It provides information on and strategies for direct action useful to activists and dissenters. There are sections on forming affinity groups, organizing demonstrations, stenciling, black blocs, sabotage, squatting, and more personal topics like mental health and “Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence”. It was written over a span of three years by dozens of radical collectives from all over the world working together.
The title alludes to The Anarchist Cookbook, a controversial book from 1971. CrimethInc. denounces the earlier book, saying it was “not composed or released by anarchists, not derived from anarchist practice, not intended to promote freedom and autonomy or challenge repressive power–and was barely a cookbook, as the recipes in it are notoriously unreliable. At best, it was a fraud, a spoof; at worst, an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of anarchist practice, and cause readers to injure themselves. The recent movie by the same name is equally embarrassing, not so much to anarchists as to the industry that produced it.”
Publisher CrimethInc. (December 2004)
ISBN 0-9709101-4-2
624 pages
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Miwon Kwon: One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, collaboration, collaborative art, institutional critique, participation, site-specific art
“Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art’s autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra’s famous dictum “to remove the work is to destroy the work” is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces.
One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.”
Publisher MIT Press, 2002
ISBN 0262112655, 9780262112659
230 pages
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