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<p>New book… a counterculture history of art and experimental
politics that turns the world inside out<br>
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<b>The Way Out. Invisible Insurrections and Radical Imaginaries in
the UK Underground 1961-1991</b><br>
Kasper Opstrup <br>
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The Way Out examines the radical political and hedonist
imaginaries of the experimental fringes of the UK Underground from
1961 to 1991 By examining the relations between collective and
collaborative practices with an explicit agenda of cultural
revolution, Kasper Opstrup charts a hidden history of experiments
with cultural engineering, expanding current discussions of art,
medias, politics, radical education and the occult revival. Even
though the theatres of operation have changed with the rise of the
Internet and a globalised finance economy, these imaginaries still
raise questions that speak directly to the present.<br>
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Here we encounter a series of figures – including Alexander
Trocchi, R. D. Laing, Joseph Berke, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs
and Genesis P-Orridge – that blurred the lines between inner and
outer, the invisible and the material. Four singular forms of
speculative techniques for igniting an invisible insurrection with
cultural means make up the central case studies: the sigma
project, London Anti-University, Academy 23 and thee Temple ov
Psychick Youth.<br>
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Contained within these imaginaries is a new type of action
university: a communal affair that would improvise a new type of
social relation into existence by de-programming and
de-conditioning us without any blueprints for the future besides
to make it happen. Instead of being turned upside down, the world
was to be changed from the inside out.<br>
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Bio: Kasper Opstrup is a writer and researcher of radical culture,
specialising in concatenations of art/literature, radical
politics, and occultism as counter-culture and underground
phenomenon. Currently he is working on a book examining aesthetic
undercurrents of mystical utopianism from surrealism to the
contemporary tentatively called An Imaginary Kingdom in the
Wastelands of the Real – on Art, Esotericism and the Politics of
Hope.<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=822">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=822</a><br>
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Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port
Watson<br>
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia<br>
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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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