A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal - Softcover

Culp, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517905230 ISBN 13: 9781517905231

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2022

Synopsis

A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it

A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal is an unexpected approach to philosophy from a guerrilla-logic point of view. Harnessing critical theory to creatively reimagine counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, and interventions beyond the political mainstream, it takes us on a journey through anarchist infowar, queer outlaws, and black insurgency—through a subterranean network of communiques, military documents, contemporary art, political slogans, adversarial blogs, and captive media. In doing so, it provides powerful new insight into contemporary political movements that pose no demands, refuse labels, and offer no solutions.

Written to both inspire and provoke, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal urges us to think through the refusal to participate in politics as usual. Author Andrew Culp demonstrates how evasion can combatively deny the existing order its power. Focusing on punk cinema, anarchist pamphlets, feminist art projects, hacker manifestos, and guerrilla manuals, he foregrounds invisibility as a novel force of disruption. He draws on concepts of criminality, fugitivity, and anonymity to bring a more nuanced understanding of how power makes things—and people—visible.

The book’s unique format is that of a theoretical manual, comprising freestanding segments instead of blueprints. Poised to reach beyond the academy into activist circles, this potent theory-in-action intervention forces us to reconsider the terrain upon which our struggles against patriarchy, anti-Blackness, capitalism, and the state operate.

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About the Author

Andrew Culp is professor of media history and theory in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is author of Dark Deleuze (Minnesota, 2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517905230
• ISBN 13: 9781517905231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216