UNLEASHING THE COLLECTIVE PHANTOMS
Essays in Reverse Imagineering
These insurgent essays describe, prolong and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that arose with the worldwide wave of protests around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South calls neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence continually return to the streets; but they also unfold in the imagination. Complex discourses and elaborate fictions weave their way through images, gestures and hilarious scenarios, hovering at the edges of reality and searching for whoever will give them voice. Museums, cinemas, books and theaters are temporary abodes for such things, and authors are only a convenience. But none of the wilder spirits ever really disappears. Time leaches away the graffiti of revolt, and the cynicism of power lays a new coat of paint. Still the collective phantoms return.
This book is dedicated to the artists who dreamed it up between them, and to the activists who wrote it out in the streets.
Table of contents
01. Cartography of Excess
02. Unleashing the Collective Phantoms
03. Drifting through the Grid
04. Warhol in the Rising Sun
05. Maps for the Outside
06. The Revenge of the Concept
07. Liar’s Poker
08. Policy of Truth
09. Artistic Autonomy and the Communication Society
10. A Rising Tide of Contradiction
11. Signals, Statistics & Social Experiments
12. S–77CCR
13. Three Proposals for a Real Democracy
14. Emancipation
15. Reverse Imagineering
16. Transparency & Exodus
It should be out in early November.
Or rather, let’s say, late December!
November 28, 2007 at 10:32 pm |
Oooh, I must get my hands on a copy. Nice work, Brian.
January 2, 2008 at 5:29 pm |
Loooking forward to getting it too!
Congratulations!
Btw, we are trying to contact you since some time ago… Among other things would like to translate & publsh the Xtremadura piece…
Best wishes for 2008!
January 28, 2008 at 6:30 pm |
when is the updated release date?
it’s not on the Autonomedia site..
–Alas, as of Feb. 3 it’s still at the press in Montreal as far as I know….