<nettime> Artpolitik Site Launch

[Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen@autonomedia.org>]

Inspired by the Institute for the Future of the Book, Minor Compositions 
is launching a digital form for the forthcoming book Artpolitik: Social 
Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation by Neala Schleuning.

Over the next month the entirety of the draft manuscript will be posted 
here: http://artpolitik.digress.it.

Comments and discussions will be integrated into revisions of the book 
before it is printed later this year (which will, as with all other 
Minor Compositions titles, be available for free download).

Cheers, stevphen


More information

Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation
Neala Schleuning

Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing 
on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the 
nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the 
Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical 
theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach to 
aesthetics.

Artpolitik is not a history of radical art production but an exploration 
of the core ideas inspiring radical art. This provocative book is 
guaranteed to both challenge and inform, reframing radical aesthetics 
for the challenges of the present. It features an exploration of ideas 
and techniques employed by artists for more effective communication of 
radical political ideas. Art has played a central role in revolutionary 
change throughout history, and our own times call for a revitalization 
of art in the service of liberatory politics. This book is an effort to 
understand how new ideas seeking to position themselves vis a vis the 
aesthetic tradition while simultaneously reflecting the transformation 
of political and social movement cultures in new directions.


Bio: Neala Schleuning is a writer and educator. She received her PhD in 
American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with an 
emphasis in political philosophy and intellectual history. Fulbright 
Scholar to the Russian Federation, she is the author of many articles, 
higher education policy papers, films and radio productions, and several 
books, including America: Song We Sang Without Knowing (1983); Idle 
Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990); 
Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 (1994); and To Have 
and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States (1997).

Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.

Requisite fb page: http://www.facebook.com/artpolitikthebook

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia: 
http://www.minorcompositions.info


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Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master’s rule." - subRosa Collective


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