[LAF] Radical Research Event Late June?

[stevphen shukaitis]

Hellos...

So I'll be coming back through London near the end of June and was  
wondering if I could possibly interest you in some form in having an  
event around this snazzy new book I've been working on that just came  
out on AK Press a week or so ago (information below).

If there would be some interest in that it would be great - if not  
that's understandable. I think a few of the contributors to the  
collection are close to London and probably could come along as well.

Cheers
Stevphen


Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective  
Theorization

http://www.constituentimagination.net
Edited by Stevphen Shukaitis + David Graeber with Erika Biddle

 From the ivory tower to the barricades!
Radical intellectuals explore the relationship between research and  
resistance.

What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social  
change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing  
vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the  
detached intellectual, observing events from on high, make sense  
anymore? In this powerful and unabashedly militant collection, over  
two dozen academic authors and engaged intellectuals—including  
Antonio Negri and Colectivo Situaciones—provide some challenging  
answers. In the process, they redefine the nature of intellectual  
practice itself.

The book opens with the editors’ provocative history of the academy’s  
inherent limitations and possibilities. The essays that follow cover  
a broad range: embedded intellectuals in increasingly corporatized  
universities, research projects in which factory workers and  
academics work side by side, revolutionary ethnographies of the  
global justice movement, meditations on technology from the branches  
of a Scottish tree-sit. What links them all is a collective and  
expansive reimagining of engaged intellectual work in the service of  
social change. In a cultural climate in where right-wing watchdog  
groups seem to have radical academics on the run, this unapologetic  
anthology is a breath of fresh air.

“These essays present a series of inspiring examples of how to  
conduct research for radical politics both inside and outside the  
university.” – Michael Hardt, author (with Antonio Negri) of Empire  
and The Labor of Dionysus

“This book is one of a kind. This book answers the question of what  
anarchist social studies, as opposed to conventional marxism or  
liberalism might look like. It combines a searching discussion of  
methods of research with substantive issues such as “who is the  
researcher?” Arguing that research is engaged or it is nothing, that  
“academics” who have no commitment to fundamental social change  
generally cannot produce work that illuminates the world and sparks  
the radical imagination, the various authors represented in this  
volume have collectively made a critical contribution to knowledge.  
The introduction is itself a major contribution to our understanding  
of the significance of what the editors call '68 thought', the  
reference being not only to the famous May events in France but to  
the Italian hot autumn of the following year.” – Stanley Aronowitz,  
author of False Promises and The Knowledge Factory

Includes materials from Brian Holmes * Ben Holtzman // Craig  
Hughes // Kevin Van Meter * Antonio Negri * Colectivo Situaciones *  
Gavin Grindon * Maribel Casas-Cortes + Sebastian Cobarrubias * Angela  
Mitropolous * Jack Bratich * Harry Halpin * Jeff Juris * Gaye Chan +  
Nandita Sharma * Ben Shepard * Kirsty Robertson * Bre * Anita Lacey *  
Michal Osterweil + Graeme Chesters * Dave Eden * Uri Gordon * Ashar  
Latif + Sandra Jeppesen * CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective

Available now from AK Press: http://www.akpress.org
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