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Coming soon from @manchester_university_press! A project years in the making...thanks to @stevphen.shukaitis for these great thoughts and to all our editors and contributors!
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What happens when art is no longer understood as representing politics, but as one of the ways political possibility is composed? The essays gathered in Ultra-left aesthetics trace a remarkable array of experiments in revolutionary culture, collective creativity, and tactical imagination. Bringing together histories that are too often treated separately, this volume offers an indispensable contribution to understanding how aesthetic practice has helped invent forms of life beyond the limits of both capitalism and the orthodox Left.

—Stevphen Shukaitis, author of The Wages of Dreamwork and editor of Minor Compositions

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Through the analytical category of ‘ultraleft aesthetics’, this volume proposes a scholarly and activist framework of knowledge production about artistic and visual practices situated within left-wing political radicalisms of the second half of the 20th century across the globe.

Ultraleft Aesthetics maps a diversity of far-left approaches to art and visual culture through a series of case studies, an introduction by the editors, and a preface by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen. Texts by Jacopo Galimberti, Sean Lovitt, and Breanne Fahs present artworks and artists grounded on an insurrectionary poetics of performance; articles by Ana Longoni, Sooran Choi, and Kristin Plys explore subversive images deployed as counter-hegemonic discursive formations by differing historical actors; and chapters by Joseph Sannicandro, David AJ Murrieta Flores, and Abigail Susik survey artists who integrated into social movements, actualizing their cultural activity as radical potential. In analyses devoted to Black Mask, Diane Di Prima, Valerie Solanas, VALIE EXPORT, Che Guevara, the Fourth Group, Women’s Action Forum Lahore, Gordon Matta-Clark, Grupo Mira, Race Traitor, and many other topics, direct action art, affinity groups, and creative praxis emerge as core concepts of transnational ultraleft aesthetics since the 1960s.

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06/25/2026

Coming soon from @manchester_university_press! A project years in the making...thanks to @stevphen.shukaitis for these great thoughts and to all our editors and contributors! @jacopo.galimberti.j What happens when art is no longer understood as representing politics, but as one of the ways political possibility is composed? The essays gathered in Ultra-left aesthetics trace a remarkable array of experiments in revolutionary culture, collective creativity, and tactical imagination. Bringing together histories that are too often treated separately, this volume offers an indispensable contribution to understanding how aesthetic practice has helped invent forms of life beyond the limits of both capitalism and the orthodox Left. —Stevphen Shukaitis, author of The Wages of Dreamwork and editor of Minor Compositions Book description Through the analytical category of ‘ultraleft aesthetics’, this volume proposes a scholarly and activist framework of knowledge production about artistic and visual practices situated within left-wing political radicalisms of the second half of the 20th century across the globe. Ultraleft Aesthetics maps a diversity of far-left approaches to art and visual culture through a series of case studies, an introduction by the editors, and a preface by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen. Texts by Jacopo Galimberti, Sean Lovitt, and Breanne Fahs present artworks and artists grounded on an insurrectionary poetics of performance; articles by Ana Longoni, Sooran Choi, and Kristin Plys explore subversive images deployed as counter-hegemonic discursive formations by differing historical actors; and chapters by Joseph Sannicandro, David AJ Murrieta Flores, and Abigail Susik survey artists who integrated into social movements, actualizing their cultural activity as radical potential. In analyses devoted to Black Mask, Diane Di Prima, Valerie Solanas, VALIE EXPORT, Che Guevara, the Fourth Group, Women’s Action Forum Lahore, Gordon Matta-Clark, Grupo Mira, Race Traitor, and many other topics, direct action art, affinity groups, and creative praxis emerge as core concepts of transnational ultraleft aesthetics since the 1960s. #zines

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