We are 'nature' defending itself entangling art, activism and autonomous zones
"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 politician...
| Autors principals: | , |
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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London
2021
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| Col·lecció: | Vagabonds
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv23hcfpt |
| Sumari: | "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"-- |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 9780745345918 0745345913 9780745345895 0745345891 0745345875 9780745345871 |