Assault on the Impossible: Dutch Collective Imagination in the Sixties and Seventies - Couverture souple

Collective, The Autonomedia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1570272719 ISBN 13 : 9781570272714

Editeur : Autonomedia, 2013

Synopsis

Assault on the Impossible is the second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo period in the Netherlands. The Provo movement is unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without violence. Political change is often tumultuous, but never takes place in cultural isolation. Actuating the revolutionary impulse requires activating large groups of people, generating "group minds" capable of reimagining the realities they inhabit. It requires a kind of visionary emotional adventurism able to gaze with a clear heart at impossibility.

Viewing the "historical nature" of revolutions through exclusively ideological lenses tends to miss the fact that they blaze forth from wider cultural fields, frequently ignited by the eccentric (often aesthetic) insights of a few profound aliens. Richard Kempton's Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt, focused on a detailed narrative of the birth, florescence, and decline of the Provo political trajectory. Marjolijn van Riemsdijk's Assault on the Impossible widens the field, investigating the aesthetic attitudes and ludic interventions that helped generate the group mind that drove the politics.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The 2014 Calendar of Jubilee Saints features hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes, as well as important anniversaries of the ideas that continue to guide this project, the calendar celebrates a different person or idea every day - far beyond the reaches of any ordinary calendar. The Autonomedia Collective offers a reprieve from a life of hard labour brought on by colonisation and the enduring devastations of the rest of the world. Instead they make it clear that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever. Surely it's reason enough to celebrate every day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Autonomedia
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570272719
• ISBN 13: 9781570272714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible