Solution 275-294 - Communists Anonymous

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Solution 275-294 - Communists Anonymous
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ingo Niermann
By (author) Joshua Simon
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:292
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 114
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9783956793493
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 8 September 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

The members of Communists Anonymous (COMA) share an extreme sense of empathy and justice, and thereforedetest more or less any form of private property. COMA members restrain themselves from any effort to overcome capitalism before there is a new convincing model at hand of how to actually implement communism. The speculative self-help of COMA understands the historical incarnations of communism as substantially incomplete in thought and practice, and places communism where it originated-in the realm of fiction. Only as fiction can communism manifest itself again beyond doubt. Solution 275-294- Communists Anonymous is a document of some imageries of communism and a testament to the current predicament of our political imagination. Atomized, privatized, and deprived of any infrastructure for solidarity-without any internationalist project, with moralizations compensating for the disappearance of political organization, with micro-politics replacing macro-politics-communists can only be anonymous in this world of ours. Edited by writer Ingo Niermann and curator Joshua Simon, this collection of essays and stories-written from the fields of art, literature, law, philosophy, activism, design, and science-proposes resolutions to current social contradictions, covering topics such as bacteria, bliss, immortality, queerness, interculturality, poetry, transportation, childhood and motherhood, and all-encompassing sensual love. Solution Series edited by Ingo Niermann Contributors Santiago Alba Rico, Heather Anderson, Ann Cotten, Fiona Duncan, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Boris Groys, Elfriede Jelinek, Georgy Mamedov and Oksana Shatalova, Metahaven, Momus, Ingo Niermann, David Pearce, Frank Ruda, Georgia Sagri, Joshua Simon, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Timotheus Vermeulen

Author Biography

Ingo Niermann is a writer and the editor of the Solution Series. His recent publications include Burial of the White Man(with Erik Niedling) andSolution 275-294- Communists Anonymous (edited with Joshua Simon). Based on his novelSolution 257- Complete Love, Niermann initiated the Army of Love, a project that tests and promotes a just redistribution of sensual love.