Betreff: <nettime> Update from INC and latest activities
Datum: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:48:00 +0200
Von: Geert Lovink <[email protected]>
Dear nettimers,
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Also out: Post-Communist Grounds, edited by Neda Genova. In Search of
the Commons’ is a collection of interventions seek to explore and
activate practices of commoning in post-communism in a range of genres
and media forms, with a specific interest in developing experimental
aesthetic practices. This volume seeks to re-orient discussions about
the commons away from prevailing frames of analyses, which tend to
‘assume that emancipatory ideas of commons and commoning come from the
West’ (Vilenica, 2023). On par with this supposition is the devaluation
of experiments in commoning situated elsewhere that engage different
historical experiences of struggle against enclosures. This includes not
only various efforts of organizing reproductive labor, public
infrastructure, or free time during state socialism across the so-called
‘Eastern Bloc’, but also the experiences of anti-imperialist, agrarian,
and anarchist struggles and revolts in these regions that may as well
have predated or, as it were, outlived the formation of socialist states.
The book brings together contributions that depart from differently
constituted ‘post-communist grounds’ to reshuffle and remix their
composition, setting them in productive relation to questions that
define our present-day: from an intimate engagement with the feminized
experience of labor emigration in contemporary Georgia to the
disappearance of spaces of everyday creativity in Poland to accounts of
the challenges of internationalist organizing on the Left today through
the prism of the collective LeftEast. Order or download here:
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/out-now-post-communist-grounds-in-search-of-the-commons/.
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[for more, see https://networkcultures.org/ ]
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