Pluto press nov 2021 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.Published in collaboration with theJournal of Aesthetics & Protest.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years hundreds of high-profile free speech incidents have rocked US college campuses. Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These incidents are widely circulated as examples of the academys intolerance towards conservative views.But this response is not the spontaneous outrage of the liberal colleges. There is a darker element manufacturing the crisis, funded by political operatives, and designed to achieve specific political outcomes. If you follow the money, at the heart of the issue lies the infamous and ultra-libertarian Koch donor network.Grooming extremist celebrities, funding media platforms that promote these controversies, developing legal organisations to sue universities and corrupting legislators, the influence of the Koch network runs deep. We need to abandon the campus free speech narrative and instead follow the money if we ever want to root out this dangerous network from our universities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All wars are started by men, so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly the driving force behind war in the modern era. So can we end war with feminism This book argues that this is possible, and is in fact already happening.Each chapter provides a solution to war using innovative examples of how feminist and queer theory and practice can inform pacifist treaties, movements and methods, from the international to the domestic spheres. Including chapters on how the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is informed by feminist theory, how indigenous feminism provides the key to reimagining peace, the disruptive aesthetics of North Korean womens art, the link between male domestic violence and mass violence, rethinking the queer definition of security, and many more aspects.By thinking beyond the violence of the capitalist patriarchy, this book makes the powerful case that the possibility of life without war is real.…