Journal of Aesthetics & Protest 7

Go Post-Money!!!

Newspaper format in an era of budget constraints and re-invention.

Designed by Jessica Fleischmann.

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Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
#6

Theory in 3 Acts

300 pluspages (larger format then past issues.) Includes 10 color pages.

Designed by Jessica Fleischmann of Still Room.

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An Atlas of Radical Cartography

An Atlas of Radical Cartography
pairs artists, architects, designers, and collectives
with writers to explore the map’s role as political agent. These (10) ten mapping projects and critical
essays take on social and political issues from globalization to garbage.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. Artists, architects, designers, geographers, and collectives are paired with writers to explore the map’s role as political agent. Edited by Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat.

Maps: An Architektur; the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP); Ashley Hunt; Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R; Pedro Lasch; Lize Mogel; Trevor Paglen & John Emerson; Brooke Singer; Jane Tsong; Unnayan.

Essays: Kolya Abramsky; Maribel Casas-Cortes & Sebastian Cobarrubias; Alejandro De Acosta; Avery F. Gordon; Institute for Applied Autonomy; Sarah Lewison; Jenny Price, Jane Tsong, DJ Waldie, Ellen Sollod, Paul S. Kibel; Heather Rogers; Jai Sen; Visible Collective & Trevor Paglen

A boxed set with a book of 10 essays and a folio of 10 maps. Cover price $35, Sale price $30

For more information: www.an-atlas.com

Becoming Fashion-Able
-by Otto Von Busch

BECOMING FASHION-ABLE consists of a series of extensive projects from fashion which discusses a new designer role for fashion. This is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. Such kind of social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. It is an engaged and collective process of enablement, creative resistance and DIY practice, where a community share methods and experiences on how to expand action spaces and develop new forms of craftsmanship. In this practice, the designer engages participants to create a collective experiences, collective economies etc... in other words, to make them become fashion-able.

240 Pages. Black and White with many illustrations and photographs. Printed in Sweden by Camino Vorlag.

Read more: Download pdf
An interview with Otto.

$23
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Fashion 2012
a relational style guide for the next decade
-by Marc Herbst

With global warming and a new round of intense economic turmoil, its clear that there are changes on the way. Radical and progressive culture has the opportunity to create a context for the new social patterns that will emerge in this mix.

Fashion 2012, a relational style guide for the next decade begins to define the emotional needs and social possiblity that opens up in this gap in order to suggest areas of mundane though meaningful artistic production.

This comic book outlines the coming years of fashion, including re-interpretations of the notion of success and the rebranding of collective action. Fashion and style are idealizations and formalizations of particular social interactions.

32 page comic book, 4x5 inches, $15.00.

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Fashion 2012 Volume 2
a relational style guide for the next decade
-by Marc Herbst

20 plus pages and an essay by Gavin Grindon.

This issue frames elements of collectivty in fashion as key to survival. The issue looks at the ways contemporary culture frames collectivity and posits an alternative notion of collectivity through fashion for the near future.

View Gavin Grindon's enclosed essay here. Gavin writes about style and propaganda.

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Call to Farms- Continental Drift through the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor
Edited by Sarah Kanouse et al.

From June 4 to 14, 2008, a group of people traveled through Illinois and Wisconsin in search of a Radical Midwest. Continental Drift is a series of spacial-political inquiries initiated by theorist Brian Holmes and the 16 Beaver Group. This book documents an iteration of this search by a group of artists and theorists who wander the Northern Plains looking for moments of social and ecological frictions and divergences. Made up of short essays on sites and means of travel- the book is a sweet application of Lucy Lippard’s “Lore of the Local” and some kind of neo-situationist extended road trip. This is a publication that hints at ways to develop deeply contextual theory and to outlive the grids of mechanization. Stops include organic dairies, urban farms, the Black Holocaust Museum and the Experimental Station.

Contributions by: mIEKAL aND, Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune, Martha Boyd and Naomi Davis, Lisa Bralts-Kelly, Ryan Griffis, Eric Haas, Sarah Holm, Brian Holmes, Sarah Kanouse, The Langby Family, Nicolas Lampert, Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross, Claire Pentecost, Dan S. Wang, Mike Wolf and Rebecca Zorach.


60 pages, Published by Heavy Duty Press. $10.00.
Edition size: 500

NOTE: This book is published by Heavy Duty Press for Midwest Radical Culture Corridor. The Journal Press has agreed to sell the book for the Corridor Participants.

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Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices

A book of essays, interviews and artwork that together offer a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism and social protest movements, literary and philosophy, the work in Failure! cuts against a notion of forward progress by instead exploring various dead-ends on the timeline of history. Edited by Nicole Antebi, Colin Dickey, and Robby Herbst, Failure! gives us ways to map our lives in relationship to improper paths.

This introduction by Robby Herbst for the Failure! book was written after the books publication and is not in the book.
 
Contributors include: Catherine Lord, Doug Harvey, Sam Green, Sam Durant, Yoshua Okón, Eduardo Abaroa, William Pope L., Temporary Services, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Catherine Hollander, Zoe Trodd, David Schafer, Richard Dedomenici, Alex Juhasz, Sarah Kanouse, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Sarah Lewison, John Conley, and Tommy Williford.
 

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