(P/B) CONSTITUENT IMAGINATION

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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. (From the publisher)

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Acknowledgements
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Stevphen Shukaitis + David Graeber
Moments of Possibility // Genealogies of Resistance
Introduction
Continental Drift: Activist Research, From Geopolitics to Geopoetics
Brian Holmes
Do It Yourself... and the Movement Beyond Capitalism
Ben Holtzman, Craig Hughes, 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 Situaciones
The Breath of the Possible
Gavin Grindon
Circuits of Struggles
Introduction
Drifting Through the Knowledge Machine
Maribel Casas-Cortes + 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
Communities of/in Resistance
Introduction
Eating in Public
Gaye Chan + 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
Education & Ethics
Introduction
Global Uprisings: Towards a Politics of the Artisan
Michal Osterweil + 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 + Sandra Jeppesen
No Gods, No Masters Degrees
Crimethlnc Ex-Workers' Collective
Glossary
Author Bios
Resources
Index