Stevphen Shukaitis

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Stevphen Shukaitis is a British anarchist , sociologist and university lecturer .

life and work

Shukaitis is considered an anarchist cultural theorist . He is a member of the Academic Staff of the University of Essex , where he teaches at the Center for Work and Organization and supervises doctoral students.

Autonomedia is an American publisher specializing in radical theory, especially the anarchist tradition . For many years this publishing house worked closely with Semiotext (e) , which specializes in post-structuralism . Shukaitis belongs to the editorial collective of Autonomedia and publishes regularly in radical and anarchist magazines such as Ephemera , Les Cahiers de l'idiotie and Rethinking Marxism . As editor he has presented a series of texts by Franco Berardi , Uri Gordon , Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri .

His first monograph begins with a Minor Compositions Open Access Statement , in which he defines Open Access as free use, but without commercial interests. Since 2009, he coordinates Minor Compositions , a series of interventions and provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life , a series of interventions and provocations due to autonomous politics , aesthetics of the avant-garde and the revolutions in everyday life. In April 2016, he presented works by the jazz saxophonist and poet John Gruntfest in a broadcast on the London experimental radio station Resonance FM .

His 2016 book, The Composition of Movements to Come , was received with interest. Stephen Duncombe of New York University described it as "brilliant and useful". Shukaitis questions the limits of intellectual and activist thinking on the left and insists that the question of culture must be viewed strategically, not just tactically. In the German-speaking area, only one publication by Shukaitis can be verified, the essay Come the uprising of the displaced? Ten thoughts on ticks & comrades in Kamion 00/2014, the follow-up project to Kulturrisse .

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • Imaginal Machines , Autonomy and Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life, Autonomedia 2009
  • The Composition of Movements to Come , Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde, Rowman & Littlefield 2016
editor
  • (Cooperation with David Graeber and Erika Biddle): Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation / Collective Theorization. AK Press 2007
  • (In collaboration with Erik Empson): Franco Berardi : Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation. London / New York: Autonomedia 2009
  • Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri : New Lines of Alliance , New Spaces of Liberty. London / New York: Autonomedia 2010
  • (Together with Malav Kanuga and James Blair): Colectivo Situaciones 19 & 20: Notes for a New Social Protagonism. London / New York: Autonomedia 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonella Schintu: Shukaitis & Graeber (Eds.), Constituent imagination , in; rhizomes, Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Issue 19 (summer 2009), accessed June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Cristina Reyna: Book Review- Imaginal Machines: Autonomy and Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life, by Stevphen Shukaitis , in: Masters of Media, September 19, 2010, accessed June 18, 2016.
  3. ^ University of Essex : Dr Stevphen Shukaitis , including list of publications, accessed June 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Ephemera: Stevphen Shukaitis , accessed June 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Stevphen Shukaitis: What Are You Reading For? Modes of Critique, Modes of Production , in: Les Cahiers de l'idiotie, Volume 6 (2015): pp. 266–277, accessed on June 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ Stevphen Shukaitis: Learning Not to Labor , in: Rethinking Marxism Volume 26 (2014), Number 2, pp. 193-205, accessed on June 18, 2016.
  7. ↑ Stevphen Shukaitis: Minor Compositions Open Access Statement , accessed June 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ Minor Compositions: About , accessed June 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ Minor Compositions: Adventures in Sound & Music with John Gruntfest , Resonance FM , April 7, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016.
  10. ↑ Stevphen Shukaitis: The Composition of Movements to Come, Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde , accessed June 17, 2016.
  11. ↑ Stevphen Shukaitis: Is the Uprising of the Displaced Coming? Ten thoughts on ticks & comrades , translated from English by Birgit Mennel, in: Kamion 00/2014, accessed on June 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Shukaitis, Stevphen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British anarchist, cultural theorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century