{"product_id":"imaginal-machines-stevphen-shukaitis-9781570272080","title":"Imaginal Machines: Autonomy \u0026 Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life","description":"All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliche: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But what exactly is radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, \u003ci\u003e Imaginal Machines \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the embodied forms of radical imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to invoke the power of the imagination when it seems that the imagination has already seized power through the power of the spectacle? Does any subversive potentiality remain? Perhaps it is only honest to think in terms of a temporally-bounded subversive power. It might be that imaginal machines only work by breaking down. That is, their functioning is only possible, paradoxically, by their malfunctioning. By reopening the question of recuperation, the inevitable drive to integrate the power of social insurgency back into the working of capital and the state, we create possibilities for a politics continually reconstituted against and through the dynamics of recuperation: to keep open an antagonism without closure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shukaitis Stevphen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570272085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570272080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Minor Compositions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Shukaitis Stevphen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078434910463,"sku":"9781570272080","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89365be2-5a1b-4329-a403-a996224742ad.jpg?v=1685475494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imaginal-machines-stevphen-shukaitis-9781570272080","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}