The Lumpen Times : 30+ Years of Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future
Language: English
Published by Hat & Beard Press Okt 2024, 2024
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Neuware - A deep archive of the secret histories of Chicago’s countercultural milieus over 30 years of community and artistic engagement.Way back in 1991, a freely-circulated zine called The Lumpen Timeswasborn in Champaign, Illinois. Thecreators would go on to relaunch it inChicago in 1993. Over time, the underground magazine would lead tobuilding a Community of the Future.Through the certainty of chance, collective engagement, casual encounters, and accidental actions, The Lumpen Timesbecame the hub for a series of cultural platforms spawning hundreds ofprojects, spaces, happenings, exhibitions, and initiatives.Some wereshort-lived, but each project fueled a new one in its wake.Asan example, they started a record label, which spawnedotherpublications. Other projects include engaging in dot-communismopening community art spaces, hosting international art and activismfestivals, and producing thousands of exhibitions and events. They alsobuilt an FM radio station, opened a bar, restaurants, launched abrewery, built another beverage company, created an artists’ retailshop, and started community kitchens. This range of passions has becomean interconnected and deeply inclusive set of ventures now called TheBuddy System.The Lumpen Times: 30+ Years of Radical Media and Building Communities of the Futureshares stories from a few dozen of the thousands of Lumpencollaborators over the years. It contains a visual survey of the printedmatter they produced over the past three decades, illustrating theevolution of the xeroxed-and-stapled zine into an internationallyrecognized cultural periodical.Thebook is also a catalog of strategies, highlighting dozens of "casestudies" demonstrating how artists, activists, educators, and creativeentrepreneurs of all stripes have built community and culture intheirbeloved city of Chicago via the printed word, physical spaces, and overthe airwaves and digital networks. Each study includes the reason itstarted, examples of its production, and the reasons it failed, mutatedor continues to this day. …
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- Title
- The Lumpen Times : 30+ Years of Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future
- Author
- Ed Marszewski
- Publisher
- Hat & Beard Press Okt 2024
- Publication year
- 2024
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- Neu
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
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- 1955125414
- ISBN 13
- 9781955125413
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- 2,359 grams
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- 310x241x43 mm
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and other titles. PMI launched the low power community radio station,
Lumpen Radio ( WLPN-LP ) on 105.5 FM, and programs the long running
cultural center Co-Prosperity in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago.
PMI also opened the Buddy store in the Chicago Cultural Center. Ed is
also the co-founder of Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar,
Kimski, Marz Community Brewing Co., Life on Marz Community Club, Pizza
Fried Chicken Ice Cream, and Kim's Uncle Pizza.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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