The Art Strike Papers: The Years Without Art / Neoist Manifestos (1991)

Two works bound together back to back.

“The Art Strike Papers is a substantial collection of material produced in response to the Art Strike 1990-93. It is made up entirely of pieces which have appeared since the publication of The Art Strike Hand­book in April 1989. Featuring James Mannox, Stewart Home, Sadie Plant, Nik Houghton, Mr Jones, &c.”

“The bulk of the manifestos and poems collected in Stewart Home’s Neoist Manifestos were first published in 1984/5. The manifestos were revised by the author in 1987, additional modifications were made to the text in 1989. This selection was then edited by Simon Strong for AK Press in 1991.”

Publisher AK Press, Stirling, UK, 1991
ISBN 1873176155, 9781873176153
52 & 44 pages
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Spektakel – Kunst – Gesellschaft. Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale (2006) [German]

“Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale erfahren in den letzten Jahren auch im deutschsprachigen Raum vermehrte Aufmerksamkeit. In der Regel ging diese verstärkte Rezeption mit einer Reduzierung der Anliegen Debords und anderer Situationisten auf kunst-, kultur- oder auch medientheoretische Fragestellungen einher. Je größer die Begeisterung und das Interesse für die kunst- und kulturkritischen Schriften Debords wurde, desto weniger Beachtung fand die Gesellschaftskritik, die Debords Kunst- und Kulturkritik zugrunde liegt. Heute geht es zum einen darum, Debord und die SI in ihrem revolutionären Anspruch ernst zu nehmen. Zum anderen geht es um die Kritik ihrer Vorstellungen vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftskritischen Diskussionen der letzten 20 Jahre.

Dieser Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf dem gleichnamigen Symposium im Januar 2005 in der Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Wien gehalten wurden und wird durch weitere Beiträge ergänzt.”

Edited by Stephan Grigat, Günther Friesinger, and Johannes Grenzfurthner (eds.),
Publisher Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2006
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ISBN 3935843615, 9783935843614
250 pages
via philo.at

Review: Dieter Wenk (Textem 2006).

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Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (2014)

“Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.

#Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.

On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own ‘Prometheanism’, and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century.

At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of ‘reasonable’ contemporary political alternatives.”

Publisher Urbanomic, Falmouth, with Merve, Berlin, 2014
ISBN 9780957529557
536 pages

Reviews: Malcolm Harris (New Inquiry), J.J. Charlesworth (Art Review), Simon O’Sullivan (Mute), Alex Andrews (Review31), Orlando Read (Frieze).
Commentaries: McKenzie Wark (Public Seminar), David Cunningham (Radical Philosophy).

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