[Minorcompositions] Fables of Re-enchantment. Multiplicity, Imaginary, Revolution

[Minor Compositions]

Now available for ordering and/or free download…

*Fables of Re-enchantment. Multiplicity, Imaginary, Revolution*
Stefania Consigliere
Translated by Steven Colatrella

/Ghosts, oracles, and talking plants… an atlas for escaping disenchantment/

Enchantment has disappeared from our lives. Whoever dares to mention it 
violates the most basic epistemological canons that hold our world 
together and is immediately labeled ignorant or mad. It is suspicious, 
however, that the taboo on enchantment comes about just as the 
historical process of modernity begins to produce spectres and 
nightmares on an industrial scale. The world is populated by ghosts and 
no one can talk about them. Even revolutionary thought has conformed to 
this precept, abandoning the imaginary to the violence of fascism: an 
enormous historical error since it has brought about the demobilization 
of intelligence and sensibility on the most crucial terrain for any form 
of change.

Uniting archeology with modernity, anthropology and yearning, /Fables of 
Re-enchantment/ analyzes the knot that links disenchantment and 
totalitarianism; it observes the ruinous effects that it has produced 
for human and non-human lives; and it sketches another way of thinking 
of the revolution, the multiplicity, and relations with the imaginary, 
the pre-individual and the invisible.

A book of anthropology, ecology and philosophy, written as a fable. A 
book for returning to wonder and to shake off fear in the years of 
global terror.


*Bio:* Stefania Consigliere is an anthropologist and works at the 
University of Genoa. She is the author of various works including 
/Strumenti di cattura. Per una critica dell’immaginario 
tecno-capitalista/ (co-written with Paolo Bartolini, 2019), 
/Antropo-logiche. Mondi e modi dell’umano/ (2014), and /La costruzione 
di un umano/ (2014).

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1309

Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions site.

Release to the book trade All Saints Day 2024

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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