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A collaboration between Pluto Press and The ReImagining Value Action Lab,VAGABONDS strives to publish an eclectic mix of long revolutionary essays and experimental works at the intersection of radical action, interventionist art, and critical inquiry.
Radical ~ Rigorous ~ Resonant
Anti-colonial, queer, feminist, and militating for collective action and radical joy (including the joy of reading), VAGABONDS aims to publish some of the best and most important writing for the struggles of tomorrow in short, accessible, and passionate form. They are peer-reviewed using a generative and open model.
Contact
info [at] vagabonds.xyz
Submissions
Please send a one paragraph pitch and a bio to submissions [at] vagabonds.xyz
Series Editor
Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Northwest Ontario and director of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL). He writes articles for both academic and general audiences and is the author of the books Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons (2014), The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (with Alex Khasnabish, 2014) and Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2014). His latest book, Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization, was published by Pluto in Fall 2018. His book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts will appear in May 2020.
Editorial advisory board
Phanuel Antwi, Isa Fremeaux, Stefano Harney, Brian Holmes, John Jordan, Eunsong Kim, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Alana Lentin, Eli Meyerhoff, Dylan AT Miner, Nick Mirzoeff, Jerome Roos, and Cassie Thornton
Pluto Press
Pluto Press is a anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent radical political publishing house with offices in London and New York. It was founded in 1969 and focuses on making timely interventions in contemporary struggles.
RiVAL
The ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) is a workshop for the radical imagination, social justice, and decolonization based in Anishinaabe territories on the Northern shore of Gitchiigumi (Thunder Bay, Canada) and active online and around the world. It is co-directed by Max Haiven and Cassie Thronton.
Authors
Angela Mitropoulos is a theorist and academic based in Sydney, Australia. Among other writings which track shifting boundaries and movements in the history of philosophy, science, aesthetics, politics and economics, she is the author of Contract and Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012).
Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, currently living in Canada. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.
Our Illustrator
Amanda is a printmaker, anarchist and abolitionist. Originally from Edmonton, Canada, she is currently pursuing an MA in Spatial Strategies in Berlin, Germany. She is a collective member of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics and her work can be found in radical journals, books, magazines, and hopefully on the streets near you. www.amandapriebe.com