Fwd: Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices available.

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> Back from the printer and available now.
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> Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices.
> Edited by Nicole Antebi, Colin Dickey, and Robby Herbst
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> An odd wonderful book, the first from the Journal of Aesthetics and
> Protest Press. While the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest may be
> constituted as a standard bearer for the "possibilities" for
> "futures" driven by art and activist practices- this collection of
> essays and interviews looks squarely at the implications of the
> perceaved personal, public and ideological wreckages that
> ceaselessly pile up, hurl at our feet and choke our wings (to
> paraphrase Walter Benjamin).
>
> Contents include a look at the afterlife of the Valerie Solanas and
> her Scum Manifesto, an exploration of the Digger inspired
> Morningstar Commune in Northern California which was deeded to God,
> a look at the monuments that remember forgotten mine wars in
> Southern Illinois, A consideration of the finality of death and its
> implication for the Act Up, and a series of interviews with
> contemporary artists.
>
> Contributors include: Catherine Lord, Doug Harvey, Sam Green, Sam
> Durant, Yoshua Okon, 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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