Disobedient objects

Abstract

'Disobedient Objects' is about out-designing authority. It explores the material culture of radical change and protest - from objects familiar to many, such as banners or posters, to the more militant, cunning or technologically cutting-edge, including lock-ons, book-blocs and activist robots. Where previous social movement histories have focused on large-scale events, strategies or biographies, this book - and the exhibition it accompanies - shows how objects themselves can be revolutionary.

Contents

Introduction / Catherine Flood & Gavin Grindon -- Barricades as material and social constructions / Mark Traugott -- The disobedient objects of protest camps / Anna Feigenbaum -- Making worlds -- From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc / Francesco Raparelli -- Direct action -- On the phenomenology of giant puppets / David Graeber -- Unpopular pamhplets / Nicholas Thoburn -- Speaking out -- Disobedient bodies : art activisms in Argentina / Ana Longoni -- Solidarity -- A multitude of struggles -- Roundtable.