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Jasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail, he is the author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization and two books of poetry, We Are Nothing and So Can You and Starsdown.
[Jasper's work is] sobering and optimistic at once -- Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick Bernes is working with a remarkably sophisticated and resilient new critical model which will doubtless have a lot of traction in the years ahead -- Julian Murphet * Affirmations: Of the Modern * Bernes' wonderfully detailed historical analyses of workers' councils and communes serves as the basis for important and provocative proposals for the tasks of communist thought and action today. -- Michael Hardt, author of <i>The Subversive Seventies</i> In this extraordinary study into revolutionary histories and possibilities, Jasper Bernes does not let his reader off lightly. He pushes us to think hard alongside him about the logics and activities of collective emancipation-in this task, we couldn't ask for a more brilliant guide than Bernes. We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future. -- Natasha Lennard, author of <i>Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life</i> A rescue project for the radical imagination, Bernes draws together a new lineage of communist thought and action that will leave readers raring to go make a new world. -- Malcolm Harris, author of <i>Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World</i>
