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Out Now! The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Issue #7

James David Morgan wrote this post at 3:52 pm on January 25th, 2010.

JOAAP 7: GO POST-MONEY!JOAAP #7 (previously) is now available in print and digital formats.

Groundswell readers will be familiar with the publication, and the incredible list of authors included in this edition, including InCUBATE, Salem Collo-Julin, Amy Franceschini, Mark Tribe, and more.

The issue reflects on current responses to economic and environmental conditions – the crises and situations we find ourselves addressing, and the fragments of thoughts that sometimes cohere into resistance and sometimes don’t.

Their stirring introduction summarizes this fluid and experimental approach:

We don’t need new territorializations that allow for the quick and easy commodification and  obfuscation of these practices into the art world; rather a discourse that equally connects to historical dialogues, and already existing discussions around the social & political context of art, cultural and social movements.

We say: Go practice.

Repetition creates conditions for the change of political subjectivity.

Go Practice!

JOAAP has published some articles exclusively online, which will make for good reading between experiments.  Grab the print edition here.

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