LEADER 04116nam 22005535 450 001 9910795588903321 005 20210717010746.0 010 $a0-8232-7634-1 010 $a0-8232-7633-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823276332 035 $a(CKB)4340000000214887 035 $a(OCoLC)1003254299 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65205 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5057705 035 $a(DE-B1597)555023 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823276332 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000214887 100 $a20200723h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Hawthorn Archive $eLetters from the Utopian Margins /$fAvery F. Gordon 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 311 0 $a0-8232-7632-5 311 0 $a0-8232-7631-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tA Note about the Archive --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tI. The scandal of the qualitative difference --$tII. A means of preparation --$tIII. The exile of our longing --$tIV. Perception of the subjectivity of the so-called object --$tAcknowledgments --$tImages and Items --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library or a research collection in the conventional sense but rather a disorganized and fugitive space for the development of a political consciousness of being indifferent to the deadly forms of power that characterize our society. Housed by the Archive are autonomous radicals, runaways, abolitionists, commoners, and dreamers who no longer live as obedient or merely resistant subjects. In this innovative, genre- and format-bending publication, Avery F. Gordon, the ?keeper? of the Archive, presents a selection of its documents?original and compelling essays, letters, cultural analyses, images, photographs, conversations, friendship exchanges, and collaborations with various artists. Gordon creatively uses the imaginary of the Archive to explore the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, zeroing in on Marxist critical theory and the black radical tradition. Fusing critical theory with creative writing in a historical context, The Hawthorn Archive represents voices from the utopian margins, where fact, fiction, theory, and image converge. Reminiscent of the later fictions of Italo Calvino or Walter Benjamin?s Arcades Project, The Hawthorn Archive is a groundbreaking work that defies strict disciplinary, methodological, and aesthetic boundaries. And like Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, which established Gordon as one of the most influential interdisciplinary scholars of the humanities and social sciences in recent years, it provides a kaleidoscopic analysis of power and effect. The Hawthorn Archive?s experimental format and inventive synthesis of critical theory and creative writing make way for a powerful reconception of what counts as social change and political action, offering creative inspiration and critical tools to artists, activists, scholars across various disciplines, and general readers alike. 606 $aUtopias$vLiterary collections 610 $aAnti-Capitalist Struggles. 610 $aArt Writing. 610 $aBlack Radical Tradition. 610 $acritical theory. 610 $apolitical resistance. 610 $autopian. 615 0$aUtopias 676 $a335.02 700 $aGordon$b Avery F.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0527533 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795588903321 996 $aThe Hawthorn Archive$93690562 997 $aUNINA