The ABC of the Projectariat

'This book is a weapon for anyone who wants to resist the dominant economy of art. Its voice is situated in the semi-periphery of Europe and resonates with the projectariat from all over the world.' Zdenka Badovinac, curator and author 'This is an urgent and accessible anatomy of the conditions of art-making today. It vividly conveys the crushing impacts of the cruel economy of contemporary art on the material and creative lives of artists while mapping a network of imaginative paths out of it.' Josh Cohen, author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop 'A radical dictionary of key terms, Kuba Szreder's The ABC of the projectariat critically diagnoses what it means to live and work in the precarious art world. Organised alphabetically into incisive, readable elaborations, the book unpacks timely concepts of domination - neoliberalism, NGOisation, co-optation, entrepreneurs of the self, precarity - and with other vital selections - art strike, interdependence, productive withdrawal and instituting the commons - offers a crucial vocabulary for anti-capitalist transformation. For a more egalitarian, democratic and inclusive world, it's urgent that we learn this language together.' T. J. Demos, author of Beyond the World's End: Arts of Living at the Crossing 'From his innovative research with the Free/Slow University of Warsaw to his breakthrough concept of the artistic projectariat, Szreder tenaciously levels our collective attention towards the paradoxes of a cultural economy in crisis, without abandoning hopes for its radical transformation.' Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter and The Artist as Activist 'Kuba Szreder's projectarians are a vanguard part of the precariat. We need a new subversive vocabulary for a new progressive politics, and this book provides much of what is needed.' Guy Standing, author of The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class -- .