Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

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Maria Hlavajova (Artistic Director, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst) Wietske Maas (Curator and Managing Editor, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst)

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

Tentative and Urgent

Maria Hlavajova (Artistic Director, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst), Wietske Maas (Curator and Managing Editor, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst)

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MIT Press
31 December 2019

The Arts: General & Reference; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship

Series: The MIT Press

Artists, theorists, activists, and scholars propose concrete forms of non-fascist living as the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the foundations of common life.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living begins from the urgent need to model a world decidedly void of fascisms during a time when the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the very foundations of a possibility for common life. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's notion of ""non-fascist living"" as an ""art of living counter to all forms of fascism,"" including that ""in us all... the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us,"" the book addresses the practice of living rather than the mere object of life.

Artists, theorists, activists, and scholars offer texts and visual essays that engage varied perspectives on practicing life and articulate methods that support multiplicity and difference rather than vaunting power and hierarchy. Architectural theorist Eyal Weizman, for example, describes an ""unlikely common"" in gathering evidence against false narratives; art historian and critic Sven L tticken develops a non-fascist proposition drawn from the intersection of art, technology, and law; philosopher Rosi Braidotti explores an ethics of affirmation and the practices of dying.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living is the first in a BASICS series of readers from BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, engaging some of the most urgent problems of our time through theoretically informed and politically driven artistic research and practice.

Contributors include

Rosi Braidotti, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Jota Momba a, and Thiago de Paula Souza, Forensic Architecture, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Patricia Kaersenhout andLukas Likavčan, Sven L tticken, Jumana Manna, Dan McQuillan, Shela Sheikh, Eyal Weizman, Mick Wilson

Copublished with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst

Edited by: Maria Hlavajova (Artistic Director BAK basis voor actuele kunst), Wietske Maas (Curator and Managing Editor, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 117mm,
ISBN: 9780262537896
ISBN 10: 0262537893
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 31 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maria Hlavajova is the Founding General and Artistic Director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. She is coeditor of Former West- Art and the Contemporary after 1989, and Propositions for Non-Fascist Living- Tentative and Urgent (both published by the MIT Press). Wietske Mass is curator for Discourse and Public Programs at BAK and was the managing editor for Former West.