Los Angeles based Journal of Aesthetics and Protest issue #3 now available.
Regional Highlights include the Art Project (http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/3/artprojectSet.htm).
Image is of a guerilla history monument installation by the Pocho Research Society
Available Now! * #3 issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest * www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
Available in paperback, 215 pages of radicality. Contact us at contact(at)journalofaestheticsandprotest.org to buy a copy ($8.00).
Also available at: 331/3 in LA and soon at others stores including Quimby‚s in Chicago, Bluestockings in New York, ProQM in Berlin and Appeniks in Copenhagan. Or you can order a copy through AK Press.
The whole issue is also available online for free (with special web-only content) at www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org.
Join us at 33 1/3 bookstore Saturday July 17, 4:30PM (1200 North Alvarado Street in Echo Park) to celebrate the release of the issue before we tumble next door to Machine Project for „Untitled War.
A journal for critical culture and active creativity.
Marginalization (at times still an interesting tactic) is a concept left-over from a less integrated society. When we call ourselves activists, artists, cultural workers, journalists; wherever and however we place ourselves in the culture spectrum- we announce an intention to change the world. We need to act in ways that meet this challenge by seriously relating to one another as teammates, not as competitors standing for our own unique métier, practice, tactic, subculture or issue. We need to internalize a human resource manager within our head and deal with teammates as equal yet distinct collaborators. >From the person who scrawls an anti-corporate graffiti slogan on his school's coca-cola vending machine, to the curator of the Venice Biennale. When we act otherwise, we cease being relevant or effective. -From the forward for issue #3
Table of Contents
>Financial Manifesto- Colleen Hennesey >Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere- Gregory Sholette >The Pink Bloque-Rachel Caidor and Dara Greenwald >United Net-Works- Sofie Sweger >The Manufacture of Dissent- Andrew Boyd and Stephen Duncombe >Deescalating SUV!=s that Run Into Demonstrators- Jene Despain >Seance in the Dark Theater: Further Notes on the Death of Camp- Malik Gaines and Alex Segade >Playin!= It Straight: Fighting to Turn NYC into a Patriot Act Free Zone- Benjamin Shepard >Office Ops in Williamsburg, NY is innovating its role as property managers- Kevin Lindamood >180 Days- Aimee Chang >Emiliano Zapata: la memoria de la rebeldia- Victor Hugo Sanchez Resendez >Metaphysics, Protest and the Politics of Spectacular Failure- Colin Dickey >Uberlinda, The Cardboard and the Fire- Graciala Monteagudo >May Day- Felicia Luna Lemus >I Broadcast Therefore I Am: Radio Adventures in Indymedia Cancun- Kate Coyer >New Languages for New Practices in Argentina- Marina Sitrin and Emilio Sparato >Community Centering- Damon Rich >Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary- Nato Thompson >Deserting the Culture Bunker- John Jordan >Hamburg Actions: A field Guide- Ava Bromberg and Brett Bloom >Deluding Language- Delusional Art: Crypto Political Aesthetics with Katie >Grinnan- Robby Herbst >Flash! Like Gossip!- Marc Herbst
Art Project contributions by;
>Jane Tsong, Robert Powers >Matias Viegener, David Burns, Austin Young, >Pocho Research Society, >Jennifer Murphy, Stream Spirit Rising
Web only Content;
>General Introduction to Collectivity in Modern Art- Alan Moore >Aesthetic and Political Avant-Gardes- George Katsiaficas >CIRCA: The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army- Larry M Bogad
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is a Los Angeles (USA) based magazine. The Los Angeles Editorial Collective includes:
-Cara Baldwin, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Lize Mogel, Christina Ulke, Kimberly Varella.
Corresponding editors are Pod (SF), Trevor Paglen (SF), Daniel Tucker (Chicago), Emily Forman(Chicago), Greg Berger (Cuernavaca), Sara Lewison (Nomadic), Redmond Entwistle (London).
