Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Volume One

Description

As the disasters of capitalism's current crisis continue to batter the world, Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe is a device for recording, analysing and transmitting events as they happen. The first volume contains an eclectic but accessible collection of reportage, interviews and letters from some of the brightest minds in critical theory. Its authors have sent dispatches from US prison yards, shipping graveyards of India, fatal drone strikes, roads crisscrossing the Mississippi Delta, childhoods in Zimbabwe and kitchens staffed by undocumented workers.

The Black Box Collective 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.

"Black Box subverts the implicit agenda of most media outlets to deny the truth or to distract us from it. The journal investigates what is a necessary step towards understanding what needs to be." --Gabor Mate, MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction "What happens if you walk away? What happens if you don't? Black Box is both a philosophy of the street and a poetics of revolutionary encounter. Every page is voltage, orientation, verge." --Bhanu Kapil, author of Ban en Banlieue "To think against and beyond the human catastrophe that is capitalism, we need to break down walls, open doors, cross thresholds, communize wherever we can--a black box not as containment but as focal point of the movement of undefined, undefinable rupture." --John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today "Black Box is either our collectively written obituary or a time capsule of capitalism in its death throes. Let's make it the latter." --Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege