JAP # 8 is Online
One of our all time favorite publications, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, has just released the online version of the long awaited issue #8. The theme:
No other time than here
No other place than now
From JAP:
As witnessed by the amazing and meaningful mutation of the #Occupy movement, these are transformative times. In editing this issue before the #, our perspective was that movement was imminent. Coming off the University of California Occupations in 2009/2010, we along with others expanded the call of occupation to "occupy everything," meaning all positions within culture. As such the trend of issue 8, and its editorial is the creative tension between institutions (socialization) and autonomy within creative practice.
Issue 8 is an exploration of grassroots modernism; an idealistic and productive inhabiting of the contours of our communities and habitus.
As such, we are excited about the range of psycho/socio-political explorations this issue offers. Marco Cuevas-Hewitt's piece reframes our understanding of time and space in relationship to (political) change, Ultra-red's article enacts this altered relationship in their contribution. Anarchist writer Ron Sakolsky traces Chicago's post-war Surrealists and their constructive linking of the IWW and EarthFirst! and the avant-garde. Choreographer Olive McKeon re-iterates beauty in the everyday as an exploration of space and possibility within conflict. Mattias Regan's article functionalizes these and other formal inventions and sees how avant-garde poetry becomes material for the popular creation of everyday subjectivity.
