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Are there any writings about anarchist/anti-capitalist resistence and aesthetics?
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yes?
I'm not totally sure what you are looking for -- if you are interested in "aesthetics" as a philosophical topic I am not the right person to ask -- but quite a lot of art theory is implicitly about resistance in one way or another, although it's hard to tell at first because in a lot of venues it would be considered kinda gauche to say outright that you are an anarchist or you are working on destroying capitalism, or something.
I would love to have a conversation about this but it's hard to know where to start since the way you've posed it the question is pretty vague. For now, here is a very haphazard and very incomplete list of things I like and see as being related to this.
Websites that frequently have writing about art and anti-capitalist politics
http://www.metamute.org/
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/
http://www.softtargetsjournal.com/index.php
http://artforum.com/
http://www.e-flux.com/
http://www.reenaspaulings.com/reenaartists.htm
http://canopycanopycanopy.com/
http://thenewinquiry.com/
and especially
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/s-a-o-b/the-noonday-shadow/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/
http://lttr.org/journal
http://www.afterall.org/home/
Here is a really good (as in smart/interesting) review of the book Artificial Hells, which I just started:
http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/ghosts-participation-past
This is an essay by Deleuze that I quite like:
http://www.parenthetic.org/minorliterature.pdf
This is an essay by Agamben on Debord's films:
http://www.totuusradio.fi/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Giorgio-Agamben-difference_and_repetition_on.pdf
A few books that a lot of people seem to think are important are:
-Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud (one good thing about this book is that it is short)
-anything by Jacques Ranciere; I especially like Staging the People and The Emancipated Spectator
-Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord!
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http://theanarchistlibrary.org/topics/art
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/topics/anti-art
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/topics/surrealist
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/topics/surrealism
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Couple books come to mind here:
Weir, David. Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism.
Shantz, Jeff. A Creative Passion: Anarchism and Culture.
I'm interested to know if this is something you're working on, and if so, in what context or area?
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