[spectre] Fwd: Update from INC, publ. Post-Communist Grounds, ed. Neda Genova

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: <nettime> Update from INC and latest activities
Datum: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:48:00 +0200
Von: Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl>

Dear nettimers,

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Also out: Post-Communist Grounds, edited by Neda Genova. In Search of 
the Commons’ is a collection of  interventions seek to explore and 
activate practices of commoning in post-communism in a range of genres 
and media forms, with a specific interest in developing experimental 
aesthetic practices. ​This volume seeks to re-orient discussions about 
the commons away from prevailing frames of analyses, which tend to 
‘assume that emancipatory ideas of commons and commoning come from the 
West’ (Vilenica, 2023).  On par with this supposition is the devaluation 
of experiments in commoning situated elsewhere that engage different 
historical experiences of struggle against enclosures. This includes not 
only various efforts of organizing reproductive labor, public 
infrastructure, or free time during state socialism across the so-called 
‘Eastern Bloc’, but also the experiences of anti-imperialist, agrarian, 
and anarchist struggles and revolts in these regions that may as well 
have predated or, as it were, outlived the formation of socialist states.

The book brings together contributions that depart from differently 
constituted ‘post-communist grounds’ to reshuffle and remix their 
composition, setting them in productive relation to questions that 
define our present-day: from an intimate engagement with the feminized 
experience of labor emigration in contemporary Georgia to the 
disappearance of spaces of everyday creativity in Poland to accounts of 
the challenges of internationalist organizing on the Left today through 
the prism of the collective LeftEast. Order or download here: 
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/out-now-post-communist-grounds-in-search-of-the-commons/.

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