Art and Revolution : Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

by Raunig, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9781584350460
• ISBN10: 1584350466
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Gerald Raunig has written an alternative art history of the "long twentieth century," from the Paris Commune of 1871 to the turbulent counter-globalization protests in Genoa in 2001. Meticulously moving from the Situationists and Sergei Eisenstein to Viennese Actionism and the PublixTheatreCaravan, Art and Revolutiontakes on the history of revolutionary transgressions and optimistically charts an emergence from its tales of tragic failure and unequivocal disaster. By eloquently applying Deleuze and Guattari's idea of the "machine," Raunig extends the poststructuralist theory of revolution through to the explosive nexus of art and activism. As hopeful as it is incisive, Art and Revolutionencourages a new generation of artists and thinkers to refuse to participate in the tired prescriptions of marketplace and authority and instead create radical new methods of engagement. Raunig develops an indispensable, contemporary conception of political change-a conception that transcends the outmoded formulations of insurrection and resistance. Too much blood and ink has been shed for the art machines and the revolutionary machines to remain separate.

Author Biography

Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich and the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), Vienna. He is coeditor of the multilingual publishing platform Transversal Texts and the Austrian journal Kamion. He is the author of Art and Revolution, A Thousand Machines, and Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, all published by Semiotext[e].

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Concatenation of Art and Revolution	p. 9
The Three Components of the Revolutionary Machine	p. 25
Out of Sync: The Paris Commune as Revolutionary Machine	p. 67
The Courbet Model. Sequential Concatenation: Artist, Revolutionary, Artist	p. 97
Spirit and Betrayal: German "Activism" in the 1910s	p. 113
Disruptive Monsters: From Representing to Constructing Situations	p. 131
"Art and Revolution," 1968: Viennese Actionism and the Negative Concatenation	p. 187
The Transversal Concatenation of the PublixTheatreCaravan: Temporary Overlaps of Art and Revolution	p. 203
After 9/11: Postscript on an Immeasurable Border Space	p. 237
Notes	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 313
Acknowledgments	p. 320
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