We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself
Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2021
978-0-7453-4589-5 (ISBN)
Description
In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.
They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.
Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.
Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.
Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.
Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
Reviews / Votes
'We need stories of victory! We need stories of transformative imagination and wild adventures that somehow succeed against all odds. Jay and Isabelle think about organizing and activism like nobody else. They've given us more than an account--they've created a new myth that has the added benefit of being true' -- StarhawkMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
6 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-4589-5 (9780745345895)
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Isabelle Fremeaux | Jay Jordan
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself
Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones
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11/2021
Pluto Press
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Persons
Isabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
Jay Jordan is co-founder of Reclaim the Streets (1995-2000) and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and co-author of We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (Verso, 2003) and A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible (Minor Compositions, 2011). He is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
Jay Jordan is co-founder of Reclaim the Streets (1995-2000) and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and co-author of We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (Verso, 2003) and A User's Guide to Demanding the Impossible (Minor Compositions, 2011). He is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
Content
Preface by Marc Herbst
Tempests
Part I: Seeding
Scream -Disobedient Desires-Following
Swallows-Extinction Machine-Rebel Bocage
Part II: Germinating
Departure Lounge-Desertion-Mud and ACAB-Insurrectionary Inhabiting-Building in the Ruins-A Discipline of Attention-Love and Forgetting
Part III: Rooting
Offensive Defense-Everyday Magic-Compos(t)ing Together-Medieval Futurisms-Victory and Revenge-Gambles and Barricades of Paper
Part IV: Flourishing
No Commoning without Commoners-Synergies and Regards-No Commoners without Rituals-Life is Feeling-200 Years of Art and the World Is Getting Worse-An Art of Life
FUCK 'IT'!
Gratitudes
Notes
Tempests
Part I: Seeding
Scream -Disobedient Desires-Following
Swallows-Extinction Machine-Rebel Bocage
Part II: Germinating
Departure Lounge-Desertion-Mud and ACAB-Insurrectionary Inhabiting-Building in the Ruins-A Discipline of Attention-Love and Forgetting
Part III: Rooting
Offensive Defense-Everyday Magic-Compos(t)ing Together-Medieval Futurisms-Victory and Revenge-Gambles and Barricades of Paper
Part IV: Flourishing
No Commoning without Commoners-Synergies and Regards-No Commoners without Rituals-Life is Feeling-200 Years of Art and the World Is Getting Worse-An Art of Life
FUCK 'IT'!
Gratitudes
Notes
