A Preview of the Future. Workers’ Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis
On Pages: 288pp, 230mm x 170mm, full colour
Author: Dario Azzellini
Publisher: Pluto Press. London
Pages: 130
Published in 2015
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Originating in a bold exhibition at the Secession in Vienna, this book examines moments in social and cultural life where there are glimpses of utopia, where other possibilities of being are imagined and even partially realised. The book moves through Latin American carnivals, forgotten histories, queer utopias, science fiction, workers' control of factories and much more. Bringing to life a variety of different artistic visions, this is an inspiring collection for anyone who recognises that something is missing and desires to be part of recreating a future as an imperfect but necessary assertion of what is not-yet.
Contents:
Foreword by Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler
Fluchthilfe & Du by Katarzyna Winiecka
Driven into Conflict by Utopia by Antke Engel
Salon Fluchthilfe / Unthinking Utopia â Borderlessness as Method by Zanny Begg
The World is Flooding by Oreet Ashery
Out of the Salon â Female counter-spaces, anti-colonial struggles and transversal politics by Sophie Schasiepen
Salon Public Happiness by Christoph Schäfer
Please Take Generously by Wealth of Negations
Self-Insufficiency by Matthew Hyland
Salon Orrizonti Occupati / Occupied Horizons by Bert Theis
Known Nowheres: Some Short Thoughts on Going Beyond by Marina Vishmidt
General Strike by Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited
A Preview of the Future. Workers' Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler
Salons, the Utopian Salon and Substantial Shops by Alice Creischer
B.A.N.G. by Etcétera
Salon DADADA by AND AND AND
Salon-e-Girdbad / Salon of the Whirlwind by Mariam Ghani
Taksim Square, June 2013 by Halil Altindere
Queering utopia in the darkroom by Fernanda Nogueira
Cuartos de Utopía / Wittgenstein and the Gypsies by Pedro G. Romero / Maquina P.H.
El Espacio del Inmigrante by Daniela Ortiz
Salón de Belleza by Miguel A. López
A Mask is Always Active by Ines Doujak and John Barker
Salon KLIMBIM
This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom at Secession, Vienna, from 10 September to 2 November 2014, and a follow-up exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, from 19 June to 16 August 2015.
Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom was realized as a PEEK project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) AR 183-G21.
Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler (2015). “A Preview of the Future. Workers’ Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis.” In: Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler (Editors). Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom. Pluto Press. London. 130-145.
