Constituent imagination : militant investigations, collective theorization

4e de couv.: What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the detached intellectual, observing events from on high, make sense anymore? In this powerful and unabashedly militant collection, over two dozen academic authors and engaged intellectuals-including Antonio Negri and Colectivo Situaciones-provide some challenging answers. In the process, they redefine the nature of intellectual practice itself. The twenty essays cover a broad range: embedded intellectuals in increasingly corporatized universities, research projects in which factory workers and academics work side by side, revolutionary ethnographies of the Global Justice Movement, meditations on technology from the branches of a Scottish tree-sit. What links them all is a collective and expansive re-imagining of engaged intellectual work in the service of social change. In a cultural climate in where right-wing watchdog groups seem to have radical academics on the run, this unapologetic anthology is a breath of fresh air Continental Drift : Activist Research, From Geopolitics To Geopoetics / Brian Holmes -- Do It Yourself And The Movement Beyond Capitalism / Ben Holtzman And Craig Hughes And Kevin Van Meter -- Logic And Theory Of Inquiry : Militant Praxis As Subject And Episteme / Antonio Negri -- Something More On Research Militancy : Footnotes On Procedures And (in)decisions / Colectivo Situacionc -- The Breath Of The Possible / Gavin Grindon -- Drifting Through The Knowledge Machine / Maribel Casas-cortes And Sebastian Cobarrubias -- Autonomy, Recognition, Movement / Angela Mitropoulos -- Fragments On Machinic Intellectuals / Jack Bratich -- Reinventing Technology : Artificial Intelligence From The Top Of A Sycamore Tree / Harry Halpin -- Practicing Militant Ethnography With The Movement For Global Resistance In Barcelona / Jeffrey S. Juris -- Eating In Public / Gaye Chan And Nandita Sharma -- Bridging The Praxis Divide : From Direct Action To Direct Services And Back Again / Ben Shepard -- The Revolution Will Wear A Sweater : Knitting And Global Justice Activism / Kirsty Robertson -- Hard Livin' : Bare Life, Autoethnography, And The Homeless Body / Bre -- Forging Spaces Of Justice / Anita Lacey -- Global Uprisings : Towards A Politics Of The Artisan / Michal Osterweil And Graeme Chesters -- Black Sails In The Corridor : Treasonous Minds And The Desire For Mutiny / Dave Eden -- Practicing Anarchist Theory : Towards A Participatory Political Philosophy / Uri Gordon -- Toward An Anti-authoritarian Anti-racist Pedagogy / Ashar Latif And Sandra Jeppesen -- No Gods, No Masters Degrees / Crimethinc Ex-workers' Collective. Edited By Stevphen Shukaitis + David Graeber With Erika Biddle. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [325]-328) And Index. What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the detached intellectual, observing events from on high, make sense anymore? In this powerful and unabashedly militant collection, over two dozen academic authors and engaged intellectualsincluding Antonio Negri and Colectivo Situacionesprovide some challenging answers. In the process, they redefine the nature of intellectual practice itself. The book opens with the editors provocative history of the academys inherent limitations and possibilities. The essays that follow cover a broad embedded intellectuals in increasingly corporatized universities, research projects in which factory workers and academics work side by side, revolutionary ethnographies of the global justice movement, and meditations on technology from the branches of a tree-sit in Scotland. What links them all is a collective and expansive re--imagining of engaged intellectual work in the service of social change. In a cultural climate where right-wing watchdog groups seem to have radical academics on the run, this unapologetic anthology is a breath of fresh air.