Main entry:

Claire Fontaine (Artist collective), author.

Title & Author:

Human strike and the art of creating freedom / Claire Fontaine ; introduction by Hal Foster.

Publication:

South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2020]

Description:

311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Semiotext(e) active agents series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Strike! -- 1. Invitation -- 2. Foreigners Everywhere -- 3. $$ -- 4. Dear R. -- 5. Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike: A Few Clarifications -- 6. We Are All Whatever Singularities -- 7. Notice to the Audience of C'est ce soir ou jamais -- 8. Footnotes on the State of Exception -- 9. This Is Not the Black Bloc -- 10. Dear R. -- 11. Towards an Imageless Political Education -- 12. Etc. -- 13. Dear A. -- 14. Is Freedom Therapeutic? -- 15. Human Strike Has Already Begun -- 16. Public -- 17. Logic of the Strike -- 18. Dynamics of an Accident -- 19. Human Strike within the Field of Libidinal Economy -- 20. Paper Voices -- 21. No Family Life -- 22. 1977: The Year That Is Never Commemorated -- 23. G.C.A. -- 24. Invisible Curators -- 25. Methodological Note -- 26. Existential Metonymy and Imperceptible Abstractions -- 27. Description of the Project for a Monument to the Victims of Military Nazi Justice in Ballhausplatz, Vienna -- 28. Ready-Made, Genealogy of a Concept -- 29. Wish -- 30. Do Not Fill In -- 31. Our Common Critical Condition -- 32. Carla Lonzi or the Art of Running the Blockade -- 33. Towards a Canonical Freedom -- 34. While You Read These Lines -- 35. Dear R. -- 36. Raising the Upraising -- 37. The Luxury of Making Sense -- 38. The Year When Fear Went on Strike -- 39. Towards a Theory of Magic Materialism.

Summary:

"This anthology presents, in chronological order, all the texts by Claire Fontaine from 2004 to today. Created in 2004 in Paris by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, the collective artist Claire Fontaine creates texts that are as as experimental and politically charged as her visual practice. In these writings, she uses the concept of "human strike" and adopts the radical feminist position that can be found in Tiqqun, a two-issue magazine cofounded by Carnevale. Human strike is a movement that is broader and more radical than any general strike. It addresses our inevitable subjective complicity with everything that limits our freedom and shows how to abandon these self-destructive behaviors through desubjectivization. Human strike, Claire Fontaine writes, is a subjective struggle to separate from the inevitable harm we do to ourselves and others simply by living within postindustrial neoliberalism. Human Strike is the first English-language publication of Claire Fontaine's influential and important theoretical writings." -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9781635901368 paperback
1635901367 paperback

Subject:

Claire Fontaine (Artist collective) Philosophy.
Claire Fontaine (Artist collective)
Arts and society.
Arts Political aspects.
Feminism and the arts.
Arts et société.
Arts Aspect politique.
Féminisme et arts.
Philosophy

Added entries:

Foster, Hal, writer of introduction.
Semiotext(e) active agents series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315362
Call No.: 315362
Copy: 1
Status: Available