Falsework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, Recitations of a Future in Common

"Falsework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, Recitations of a Future in Common is an experimental and collaborative archive of autonomous and internationalist political education and communication for this historical moment. It addresses key questions about intersubjective sustenance in the subjunctive tense, community building and institutional maintenance, social action and communication, and collaborative learning and knowledge production, that have been raised anew by the "twin crises" of the global pandemic and insurgent neoliberal fascism. Over the course of seven dialogues, and seven interludes, the subject matter is addressed by scholars, artists, designers, curators, activists, writers, educators, organizers, and students whose beautifully overlapping lifeworlds glimpse a community and a world to come. This relational, curatorial, and editorial expedition is moved by a commitment to politics as a living and not a dead labor, and also by a relationship, to knowing and to institutions, that does not find any pleasure in the reactionary force to order. The project of education instantiated here goes beyond educating ourselves in known scripts, of political action and revolution, so that the production of knowledge is actually radical and reorients the relationship between education, knowledge, and the remaking of our world, where the university, the artworld, and neoliberal political institutions are increasingly unfulfilling objects of desire and unreliable sources of refuge"--