[DEBATE] : Fwd: Perspectives "An/Architecture" issue

[Jai Sen]

Saturday, June 21, 2008

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From: Alexis Bhagat <lex at nadalex.net>

Date:  June 19 2008 7:46:46 PM GMT+05:30

Subject: Perspectives "An/Architecture" issue

Reply-To: anarchitecture at nadalex.net

Call for Submissions for Anarchitecture / Building / Power



The editors of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory are seeking essays,  
photo-essays, project documentation, interviews and book reviews for  
an issue of theoretical, practical and activist engagements with  
architecture and urbanism.



Theory & History: ANARCHITECTURE

We are seeking anarchist reflections on the relationship between  
social change and the built environment, the peculiar relationship of  
modern construction to capitalism, and aphorisms that fumble towards  
an anarchist theory of the city.





Practice: BUILDING

We are seeking documentation of alternative practices in the built  
environment, detailed discussions of alternative models of property  
or the architecture of anarchist communes, discussion of vernacular  
architectures and practical examples of autonomous construction.





Struggle: POWER

Domination unfolds in space: How have people challenged domination in  
space? We are interested in everything here from professionals  
engaged in combating Eminent Domain / displacement and grassroots  
organizations challenging the spatial agenda of the War on Drugs/ 
Terror to collective efforts to reimagine the city and private  
spatial experiments in freedom.





We welcome finished essays as well as proposals for new work. If you  
are interested in writing for this issue, but do not have a specific  
topic, please send us a statement of interest and we may provide you  
with a project to respond to. We also welcome suggestion of  
projects / actions that we should consider.



anarchitecture at nadalex.net



This issue will be published in Spring 2009. Statements of interest,  
suggestions and proposals for new essays should be submitted by July  
15th, 2008. A statement of interest is not required for submissions  
of completed works: Completed works may be submitted before September  
15th, 2008. (Please inform us if any submissions have been published  
previously.) Final drafts of all submissions will be due in December  
2008.



This issue is guest edited by Alexis Bhagat, Francesca Manning and  
Etienne Turpin.



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Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is the publication of the Institute  
for Anarchist Studies (IAS), a nonprofit foundation established in  
1996 to support the development of anarchism. The aim of the IAS is  
to promote critical scholarship that explores social domination and  
reconstructive visions of a free society. Primarily, the IAS is a  
grant-giving body, supporting work by radical writers. To date, the  
IAS has funded almost sixty projects by authors from countries around  
the world, including Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, Lebanon, Chile,  
Ireland, Nigeria, Mexico, the Philippines, Germany, Uruguay, South  
Africa, the Czech Republic, and the United States. Additionally, the  
IAS annually organizes the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT)  
conference in Vermont and the Radical Theory Track at the National  
Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR).

www.anarchiststudies.org



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