Title & Author:

Propositions for non-fascist living : tentative and urgent / edited by Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas.

Publication:

Utrecht : BAK, basis voor actuele kunst ; Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 cm.

Series:

Basics series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Editors note. Propositions for non-fascist living: tentative and urgent / Maria Hlavajova -- Non-fascist ethics: learning to live and die as affirmation / Rosi Braidotti -- Notes on the underside of visibility / Denise Ferreira da Silva (in conversation with Jota Mombaça and Thiago de Paula Souza) -- Plantocracy or communism / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten -- The thread and the gap / Patricia Kaersenhout and Lukáš Likavčan -- Abdicating sovereignty / Sven Lütticken -- Scarecrows / Jumana Manna -- Non-fascist AI / Dan McQuillan -- More-than-human cosmopolitics / Shela Sheikh -- An impromptu glossary: open verification / Eyal Weizman and Forensic Architecture (based on the lecture " Counter forensics" by Eyal Weizman and the exhibition "Forensic justice" by Forensic Architecture) -- To live the coming death / Mick Wilson.

Summary:

"Propositions for Non-Fascist Living begins from the urgent need to model a world decidedly void of fascisms during a time when the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the very foundations of a possibility for common life. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's notion of "non-fascist living" as an "art of living counter to all forms of fascism," including that "in us all... the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us," the book addresses the practice of living rather than the mere object of life. Artists, theorists, activists, and scholars offer texts and visual essays that engage varied perspectives on practicing life and articulate methods that support multiplicity and difference rather than vaunting power and hierarchy. Architectural theorist Eyal Weizman, for example, describes an "unlikely common" in gathering evidence against false narratives; art historian and critic Sven Lütticken develops a non-fascist proposition drawn from the intersection of art, technology, and law; philosopher Rosi Braidotti explores an ethics of affirmation and the practices of dying. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living is the first in a BASICS series of readers from BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, engaging some of the most urgent problems of our time through theoretically informed and politically driven artistic research and practice."-- From Amazon.

ISBN:

9780262537896 (paperback)
0262537893 (paperback)

Subject:

Anti-fascist movements.
Fascism.
Totalitarianism.
Antifascisme.
Fascisme.
Totalitarisme.
fascism.
totalitarianism.

Form/genre:

Essays

Added entries:

Hlavajova, Maria, 1971- editor.
Maas, Wietske, editor.
Basics series (BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht, Netherlands))

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 307748
Call No.: BIB 253230
Status: Available