[spectre] A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible

[Shelly Silver]

i'd prefer not to do below (allow scribd, etc etc), is there another way to get this document?

On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:

> stevphen,
> 
> thanks for this - it comes timely...
> 
> however, what is weird is that the download of the document is restricted to people logged into facebook (and this through a service, scribd, that claims it helps to "liberate the word" ... ;-). maybe it is is the guide for the Insurrectionary Imagination only of the facebook generation?
> 
> with an understanding of a "liberation" like that - which only happens _within_ the world of facebook (WOF), it's no wonder that the old western ideals are going down the drain...
> 
> ach, altes Europa...
> 
> regards,
> -a
> 
> 
>> New booklet on art and activismŠ
>> 
>> A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible
>> Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
>> 
>> This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It's a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht's words to heart: "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."
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>> It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.
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>> --
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>> "Art is useless, so they tell us, as soon as it truly affects the world it loses its status as art. (You never know, it might slide down the slippery slope, becoming instrumental, propaganda, or even worse craft!) The strange thing is that those who tell us this are often the same people who put art to the crudest instrumental use - the art market. Maybe what they mean is that - art is useless when its not ultimately used to make a profit. Perhaps it's the same logic as that which argues that education has no use outside slotting us into the mutilated world of work and consumption. This guide is for those of us who suspect that art has other uses and who are prepared to seek them."
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>> PDF available freely online (<http://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.html>http://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.html), discounts for ordering multiple copies.
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>> 64 pages, A6 size (4.134 x 5.827)
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>> To be released June 1st, 2011
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>> Released by Minor Compositions, London / New York / Port Watson
>> Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.
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>> Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
>> <http://www.minorcompositions.info>www.minorcompositions.info |<mailto:info at minorcompositions.info>info at minorcompositions.info
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>> --
>> Stevphen Shukaitis
>> Autonomedia Editorial Collective
>> <http://www.autonomedia.org>http://www.autonomedia.org
>> <http://www.minorcompositions.info>http://www.minorcompositions.info
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>> "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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