{"product_id":"black-box-a-record-of-the-catastrophe-volume-one-paperback","title":"Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Volume One - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThe Black Box The Black Box Collective\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the serial disasters of capitalism's current crisis--economic, political, environmental--continue to batter the world, \u003cem\u003eBlack Box: A Record of the Catastrophe\u003c\/em\u003e is a device for recording, analyzing, and transmitting events as they happen. But it offers neither dire predictions nor false hopes. Instead, it embraces the mystery of what might transpire. The word \"catastrophe\" has not always signified \"disaster\"; during the sixteenth century, especially in theater, it came to mean \"a reversal of what is expected.\" \u003cem\u003eBlack Box\u003c\/em\u003e is ultimately a documentary project, a record of the catastrophe, but it's an open question where the inquiry will take us. It may be a record of the disastrous end. Or it may be a record of the turning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first volume contains an eclectic but accessible collection of reportage, interviews, letters, fragments, and theoretical responses from some of the brightest minds in critical theory. Its authors have sent dispatches from American prison yards, the shipping graveyards of India, fatal overseas drone strikes, roads crisscrossing the Mississippi Delta, childhoods in revolutionary Zimbabwe, and kitchens where undocumented workers wash dishes. By taking a broad geographical and aesthetic stance, \u003cem\u003eBlack Box\u003c\/em\u003e will be a constellation of ideas and information that points toward the future--whatever it may hold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors to \u003cem\u003eBlack Box\u003c\/em\u003e include scholars (Nina Power, Silvia Federici, Sami Khatib, Chris O'Kane, Tanya Erzen), cultural critics (Richard Dyer, Charles Mudede), authors (Ursula K. Le Guin, Miranda Mellis), poets (Emily Abendroth, Cathy Wagner, Alli Warren), and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Black Box Collective\u003c\/b\u003e is composed of poets, journalists, academics, metaphysicians, artists, and strategists who gather regularly at a retired dairy farm in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains north of Seattle to explore themes of consciousness, community, and circulation of the communizing current--and to discover and assemble a critique that will wake us from the dream world that is seamlessly reproduced by capitalist culture. They are based in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166225961095,"sku":"9781629631233","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5bd86e1ba96fb9bc3d4c290750d8e716.webp?v=1733319330","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/black-box-a-record-of-the-catastrophe-volume-one-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}