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Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at Autonomedia and lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009) and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor.

Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Shukaitis became interested in radical politics and art through the punk scene and spent several years putting out DIY albums and organizing shows. He moved to the NYC area to become more involved in the anti
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The Operating System by Eric Laursen
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Eric Laursen’s The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State performs a crucial act of intellectual reorientation within contemporary anarchist thought. While anarchism has long positioned itself against the State, Laursen argues that ...more
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Utopia in the Factory by Rhiannon Firth
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To read Utopia in the Factory is to watch the machinery of cybernetics momentarily stutter – a glitch that reveals the human, the utopian, and the ungovernable within the algorithmic. Firth and Preston trace the promise and peril of Industry 4.0 thro ...more
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Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci
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Emily Callaci’s Wages for Housework is not simply a history of a movement. It is a cartography of how struggles around unwaged reproductive labor braided themselves into broader insurgencies – across feminism, anti-racism, environmental politics, and ...more
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Clearly Kabouter by Coen Tasman
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In Clearly Kabouter, Coen Tasman composes a lucid yet kaleidoscopic cartography of a movement that refused to be domesticated by either liberal tolerance or revolutionary orthodoxy. The Kabouters, with their surrealist folkloric aesthetics and unapol ...more
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The Nation on No Map by William C.  Anderson
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The Nation on No Map – Black Anarchism and Abolition pulses with the urgency and clarity of a tradition too often misread or dismissed: black anarchism as both refusal and generative horizon. In a manner reminiscent of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s ...more
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Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Towards a Black Anarchism doesn’t simply sketch the contours of another possible politics, it dissolves the very coordinates that make politics legible in the first place. In a style that is as rigorous as it is fugitive, Mar ...more
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Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction by Jaleh Mansoor
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In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory, Jaleh Mansoor offers a daring reconfiguration of art history, not as a chronology of movements and styles, but as a vital archive of transformations in the capitalist social order ...more
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