Praxis and Revolution
Morning Comrades and welcome to another week of dissecting our reality through a different, red-tinted lens. As with every week we start on a positive note and a new weekly playlist! It is a lot heavier than usual, I dipped into several sort-of forgotten early `00’s post rock albums that certainly left a mark on this playlist. Other than that, several deep cuts from the Madchster era and so much other good jams fill these 3 hours. Enjoy!
Whilst the news broke on Friday I wanted to wait over the weekend to confirm this and yes, finally, Eva von Redecker’s book “Praxis and Revolution” is finally available in English which leaves high hopes for an English translation of her other book, “Revolution für das Leben”. Full disclosure, I haven’t read this book yet but if the aforementioned book is anything to go by it is an absolute must. Again, full disclosure, I have developed a genuine intellectual crush on her work, her most brilliant ability to use language as well as her sharp, concise and forward thinking analysis in addition to her conclusion have quickly elevated her work into my personal pantheon of modern day marxist theory and praxis. It is that good.
About this book:
Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new paradigm. Developing a theoretical account of social transformation, Praxis and Revolution incorporates a wide range of insights, from the Frankfurt School to queer theory and intersectionality. Its revised materialism furnishes prefigurative politics with their social conditions and performative critique with its collective force.
Von Redecker revisits the French Revolution to show how change arises from struggle in everyday social practice. She illustrates the argument through rich literary examples—a ménage à trois inside a prison, a radical knitting circle, a queer affinity group, and petitioners pleading with the executioner—that forge a feminist, open-ended model of revolution.
Praxis and Revolution urges readers not only to understand revolutions differently but also to situate them elsewhere: in collective contexts that aim to storm manifold Bastilles—but from within.
Before we start with today’s hot shots just a brief but heartfelt thank you to everyone that commented on what they were looking for when it comes to coming Fall / Winter Black Lodges drops. It’s all noted and this week will be a week of sourcing and hopefully new design work coming out. Again, thanks heaps for all your feedback. With that, here is your selection of hot shots to share far and wide.