Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan of the Laboratory for the Insurectionary Imagination present their 2021 book **We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones** published by the RiVAL-affiliated VAGABONDS series of Pluto Press in cooperation with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest ============ For a video version of this talk, please visit: https://youtu.be/4rcJjws1tlk ============ Information about the book: https://vagabonds.xyz/wandi/ Purchase the book worldwide: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345871/we-are-nature-defending-itself/ Information about the authors: https://www.labo.zone/ ============ In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash started to blow, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, embarking on a journey across Europe in search for postcapitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared “lost to the republic”, known by those who inhabited it as la ZAD (the ‘zone to defend’): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the infrastructure project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.
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We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself (book presentation with Isa Fremeaux and Jay Jordan)
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We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself (book presentation with Isa Fremeaux and Jay Jordan)
Nov 25, 2021
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