The Blade of Grass Foundation is hosting a free online event with VAGABONDS author Cassie Thronton (author of The Hologram) and Bay Area movement educator Miki Kashtan, moderated by Kaira Jewel. More information and registration...
Radical Pamphlets to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Palm Oil
The Grease of Empire
Coming April 2022
We Are ‘Nature' Defending Itself
Entangling Art, Activism & Autonomous Zones
October 2021
Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
The Hologram
Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
June 2020
Pandemonium
Proliferating Borders of Capital & the Pandemic Swerve
June 2020
Coming in Fall 2022...
On Cuddling
Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace
By Phanuel Antwi
Radical Pamphlets to Fan the Flames of Discontent
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
Proposals
For information on the series and how pitch a title, please click here.
Series Editor
Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). Haiven is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).
Editorial advisory board
Phanuel Antwi, Isa Fremeaux, Stefano Harney, Marc Herbst, Brian Holmes, John Jordan, Eunsong Kim, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Alana Lentin, Eli Meyerhoff, Dylan AT Miner, Nick Mirzoeff, Massimiliano Mao Mollona, 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.
Events
Care-to-Care (online February 25)
Paris’s La Gaîté Lyrique is hosting a free event discussing mutual aid in the pandemic with VAGABONDS author Cassie Thornton (speaking about The Hologram) and Marina Sitrin, editor of the recent book Pandemic Solidarity. More...
News, Media, and Interviews
And keep an eye out this fall for our fifth #VAGABONDS book, Phanuel Antwi's remarkable On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace -->
Read MoreAnd the third #VAGABONDS pamphlet is @labofii's thrilling account of the building and defence of the ZAD near Nantes in We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones, which we co-published with @aesthetics_n
Read MoreThe second #VAGABONDS book was @femnistecondept's The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, detailing a viral social practice now being used by hundreds of people around the world
Read MoreThe first in the #VAGABONDS series was @Mitropoulos_A's brilliant and prescient early analysis of the pandemic in Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve -->
Read MoreBut before closing the thread a quick note that this book is the latest in the #VAGABONDS series I edit for @PlutoPress, radical pamphlets to fan the flames of discontent, at the intersection of art, activism and critical inquiry -->
Read More
Review of PANDEMONIUM at libcom.org
Libcom.org has published an excellent and comprehensive review of Angela Mitropoulos’s Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve, which can be read here: https://libcom.org/blog/review-angela-mitropoulos-pandemonium-15092020
VIDEO: The Hologram: Peer to Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
VAGABONDS author Cassie Thornton spoke about her project The Hologram at the Chaos Computer Club in December of 2020.
Authors
ISABELLE FREMEAUX is an educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London.
JAY JORDAN is an art activist and author, co-founder of Reclaim the Streets and The Clandestine Insurgent Clown Army.
Together they co-facilitate the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
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.
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).
Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). Haiven is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).
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
Witch
Stella the Good (Enough) Witch was born on Halloween and raised by pagan weirdos. When they aren’t providing spiritual counsel, they spend most of their time cooking cauldrons of food, organizing for social and environmental justice, travelling, tending to communities and collaging cosmic credit cards (because we owe each other the world). They love helping artists, activists and healers pre-vent and recover from burnout though the impossibility of that in late stage capitalism is part of that work too. They live by farmer poet Wendell Berry’s words “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”