Underground Passages
Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011
Published on 26. January 2015
375 pages
978-1-84935-202-4 (ISBN)
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An exhaustive study of the richly textured "resistance culture" anarchists create to sustain their ideals and identities amid everyday lives defined by capital and the state, a culture prefiguring a post-revolutionary world and allowing an escape from domination even while enmeshed in it. Whether discussing famous artists like Kenneth Rexroth, John Cage, and Diane DiPrima, or relatively unknown anarchist writers, Jesse Cohn clearly links aesthetic dynamics to political and economic ones. This is cultural criticism at its best.
Jesse Cohn is the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics, and an associate professor of English at Purdue University North Central in Indiana.
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Jesse Cohn, an American literary/cultural scholar and translator, is one of the founding members of the North American Anarchist Studies Network and the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics (Susquehanna University Press, 2006). While teaching as an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University North Central in Indiana, he has translated works by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Gustav Landauer, and Daniel Colson. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Content
Part I Resistance and Culture
Introduction
The Reader in the Factory
Part II Speaking to Others: Anarchist Poetry, Song, and Public Voice
1: The Poet's Feet
2: The Devil's Best Tunes
3: Two Crises of Language
4: "A Need Without A Hope"
5: Fight or Flight?
Part III "Out of the Bind of the Eternal Present": Anarchist Narrative
1: White Rooms
2: Varieties of Estrangement
3: Outcast Narratives
4: From Cretinolândia to Common-Sense Country
5: Stronger Loving Worlds
6: From Terre Libre to Temps de Crises
7: Barbarizing Visions
8: A Social Spectacle?
9: The Mirror Stage
Part IV Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Images
1: Virile Bodies
2: "He Peddles Signs": Words and Images
3: "Evolution Is Not Over Yet": Visual Narrative
4: The Stuttering Image: Anarchist Cinema
Conclusion: Lines of flight
Bibliography
Introduction
The Reader in the Factory
Part II Speaking to Others: Anarchist Poetry, Song, and Public Voice
1: The Poet's Feet
2: The Devil's Best Tunes
3: Two Crises of Language
4: "A Need Without A Hope"
5: Fight or Flight?
Part III "Out of the Bind of the Eternal Present": Anarchist Narrative
1: White Rooms
2: Varieties of Estrangement
3: Outcast Narratives
4: From Cretinolândia to Common-Sense Country
5: Stronger Loving Worlds
6: From Terre Libre to Temps de Crises
7: Barbarizing Visions
8: A Social Spectacle?
9: The Mirror Stage
Part IV Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Images
1: Virile Bodies
2: "He Peddles Signs": Words and Images
3: "Evolution Is Not Over Yet": Visual Narrative
4: The Stuttering Image: Anarchist Cinema
Conclusion: Lines of flight
Bibliography
