http://www.gcadvocate.com/2010/02/radical-imaginings/ The Student Newspaper of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gcadvocate.com/2010/02/radical-imaginings/comment-page-1/#comment-3043 Imaginal Machines | Minor Compositions Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:44:43 +0000 http://advocate.mellifluously.info/?p=2120#comment-3043 [...] REVIEWS “This journey through the radical imagination of the left, written in a compelling and entertaining style, is definitely worth a read for everybody interested in radical and antagonistic politics. Shukaitis walks a tightrope, avoiding the two-sided abyss of either outdated notions of revolution as “seizing state power” and the more recent ‘tradition’ which knows only cultural politics and has thereby absented itself from the larger question of the transformation of the political economy. The book is fun to read because it is ‘open’ in the best sense of the word. It deals with heavy concepts but not in a frontal assault. It is rather like the author is on a lengthy reconnaissance mission, weaving in and out of sideways and dodgy allies, hacking himself through the underworld of zombified concepts.” – Armin Medosch, The Next Layer [...] [...] REVIEWS “This journey through the radical imagination of the left, written in a compelling and entertaining style, is definitely worth a read for everybody interested in radical and antagonistic politics. Shukaitis walks a tightrope, avoiding the two-sided abyss of either outdated notions of revolution as “seizing state power” and the more recent ‘tradition’ which knows only cultural politics and has thereby absented itself from the larger question of the transformation of the political economy. The book is fun to read because it is ‘open’ in the best sense of the word. It deals with heavy concepts but not in a frontal assault. It is rather like the author is on a lengthy reconnaissance mission, weaving in and out of sideways and dodgy allies, hacking himself through the underworld of zombified concepts.” – Armin Medosch, The Next Layer [...]

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