Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations/Collective Theorization

Enviado por claranja, dom, 2015-06-28 19:25


Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations/Collective Theorization.
Oakland: AK Press, 2007. Pp. 320. $21.95 (paperback).
ISBN 978-1904859352

{da introdução do livro}

Thoughts. Provocations. Explorations. Forms of investigation and social research that expand possibilities for political action, proliferating tactics of resistance through the constituent power of the imagination. Waing, we as questions, not from te perspective of the theorist removed and separate from organizing, but rather from within and as part of the multiple and overlapping cycles and circuits of struggle. For the removed theorist, movements themselves are mere abstractions, pieces of data to be categorized, analyzed, and ﬁxed. The work of militant investigation is multiple, collectively extending forms of antagonism to new eves of understaning, composing ﬂesh-made words from immanent processes of resistance. Far from vanguardist notions of intellectual practice that translate organizing strategies and concepts for populations who are believed to be too stupid or unable to move beyond trade union consciousness, it is a process of collective wondering and wandering that is not afraid to admit that the question of how to move forward is always uncertain, difﬁcult, and never resolved in easy answers that are eternally correct. As an open process, militant investigation discovers new possibilities within the present, turning bottlenecks and seeming ea ens into new opportunities for joyful insurgency.





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