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Stevphen Shukaitis

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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 ...more

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	Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Stevphen Shukaitis (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization by Stevphen Shukaitis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Graeber (Editor), Erika Biddle (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer by Paolo Sollier, Sandro Mezzadra (Preface By), Steven Colatrella (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization by Doctor Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism by David J. Bell (Editor), Martin Parker (Editor), Stevphen Shukaitis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labour After the Avant-Garde (New Politics of Autonomy) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Combination Acts: Notes on Collective Practice in the Undercommons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wages of Dreamwork: Class Composition and the Reproduction of Cultural Labor liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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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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