商品描述
How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence. "Reading is class struggle," writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines, as it were, and even behind them, Cadava and Nadal-Melsió engage in an inventive mode of activist writing to argue that reading and writing are never solitary tasks, but always collaborative and collective, and able to revitalize our shared political imagination. Drawing on what they call a "red common-wealth"--an archive of vast resources for doing political work and, in particular, anti-racist work--they demonstrate that sentences, as dynamic repositories of social relations, are historical and political events.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
如何閱讀和寫作是集體的政治教學行為，以及為什麼變革的鬥爭必須從句子的層面開始。
「閱讀是階級鬥爭，」貝爾托·布雷希特（Bertolt Brecht）寫道。《政治上的紅色》（Politically Red）通過探討政治與識字之間不斷變化的關係，為當前社會和種族正義的要求提供了背景。通過對卡爾·馬克思（Karl Marx）、羅莎·盧森堡（Rosa Luxemburg）、瓦爾特·本雅明（Walter Benjamin）、W. E. B. 杜波依斯（Du Bois）、弗雷德里克·詹姆森（Fredric Jameson）等人的一系列創意閱讀，該書揭示了歷史作為暴力的累積，並因此暗示它可以成為面對當前不平等、種族主義和法西斯主義叛亂的重要資源。正如卡達瓦（Cadava）和納達爾-梅爾西奧（Nadal-Melsió）所言，他們以創新的方式進行激進寫作，主張閱讀和寫作從來不是孤獨的任務，而是始終是合作和集體的行為，能夠重振我們共同的政治想像。他們借用所謂的「紅色共同體」（red common-wealth）——一個進行政治工作，特別是反種族主義工作的豐富資源檔案，展示了句子作為社會關係的動態儲存庫，是歷史和政治事件。
作者簡介
Eduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. His books include
Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History,
Emerson and the Climates of History, and
Paper Graveyards.
Sara Nadal-Melsió is a New York City-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher. Presently writer-in-residence at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, she has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, SOMA in Mexico City, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals, edited volumes, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of
Alrededor de/ Around, and the editor of two special issues on cinema,
The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and T
he Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She has recently cocurated a show on Allora & Calzadilla for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it,
To Be All Ears, To Be in the World: Acoustic Relation in Allora & Calzadilla, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis,
A Modest Proposal: Puerto Rico's Crucible. Her book
Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
愛德華多·卡達瓦（Eduardo Cadava）是普林斯頓大學的菲利普·梅休（Philip Mayhew）英語教授。他的著作包括《光之詞：歷史攝影的論文》（Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History）、《愛默生與歷史的氣候》（Emerson and the Climates of History）以及《紙的墓地》（Paper Graveyards）。
薩拉·納達爾-梅爾西奧（Sara Nadal-Melsió）是一位居住在紐約市的加泰羅尼亞作家、策展人和教師。目前她是費城斯勞特基金會（Slought Foundation）的駐校作家，曾在賓夕法尼亞大學、普林斯頓大學、墨西哥城的SOMA以及紐約大學任教。她的散文發表於各種學術期刊、編輯卷和博物館目錄中。她是《圍繞/ Around》的共同作者，並編輯了兩期關於電影的特刊，《看不見的傳統：晚期佛朗哥主義下的前衛加泰羅尼亞電影》（The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism）和《激進影像：政治想像的時間擾動》（The Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination）。她最近共同策劃了巴塞隆納塔比斯基金會（Fundació Tápies）關於阿洛拉與卡爾薩迪拉（Allora & Calzadilla）的展覽，並撰寫了一篇書籍散文《全耳而聽，身處世界：阿洛拉與卡爾薩迪拉的聲音關係》（To Be All Ears, To Be in the World: Acoustic Relation in Allora & Calzadilla），同時編輯了一本關於波多黎各危機的伴隨卷《謙遜的提議：波多黎各的熔爐》（A Modest Proposal: Puerto Rico's Crucible）。她的著作《歐洲與狼：音樂概念的政治變異》（Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept）即將由Zone Books出版。
