FALSE WORK SMALL TALK

FALSE WORK SMALL TALK

POLITICAL EDUCATION, AESTHETIC ARCHIVES, RECITATIONS OF A FUTURE IN COMMON
By ASMA ABBAS , COLIN EUBANK
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Flasework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, Recitations of a Future in Common is an experimental an collaborative archive of autonomous and internationalist interventions into questions of politics, subjectivity, sustenance, and coexistence that have been raised anew by the "twin crisis" of the global pandemic and insurgent neoliberal fascism. This relational, curatorial, and editorial project of the Hic Rosa Collective is animated by a commitment to politics as a living and not a dead labor, as well as by a relationship to knowing and to institutions that does not find and pleasure in hte reactionary call to order. The subject matter is addressed by friends, scholars, artists, curators, activists. educators, organizers, and students whose beautifully overlapping lifeworlds give us glimpses of a community and world to come. Come, sit near

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About the Author

Asma Abbas is a political theorist and educator. She is Professor of Politics and Philosophy and Director of Transdisciplinary and Experimental Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, former Fulbright-Masaryk Distinguished Chair in Social Studies in Brno, Czech Republic, and former Dean of Academics at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan. Asma is the founding organizer and director of Hic Rosa (and its Studio in Materialist and Anticolonial Politics and Aesthetics), the Falsework School for alternative community political education, and the ACCREW cultural workers caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America. She is the author of Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, & Aesthetics (2010), and Another Love: Overtures to a Politics of the Unrequited (2018). She is working on an experimental political ethnography titled Anti-Odysseus: Fugues of the Non-Homeric and essays on the “hatred of education” (in the key of Rancière’s Hatred of Democracy). Anchor and producer of the “Assembling the Future/Tense” Studio, she co-edited & co-designed this volume.

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