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    Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden. Positionen und Modelle…

  • Roger Paez

    Operative Mapping. Maps as Design Tools

  • Silvia Federici

    Jenseits unserer Haut. Körper als umkämpfter Ort im…

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    Creativity Exercises. Emancipatory Pedagogies in Art and…

  • Bill Balaskas, Carolina Rito (Eds.)

    Institution as Praxis

  • Julian Hanna

    The Manifesto Handbook. 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form

  • Sandra Teitge (Hg)

    Goethe in the Skyways

  • Samantha Hardingham (ed.)

    Cedric Price Works 1958 - 2003. A Forward-Minded…

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    Universalenzyklopädie der menschlichen Klugheit

  • Matt Anniss

    Join the Future. Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass…

  • Milo Sweedler

    Allegories of the End of Capitalism. Six Films on the…

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    Hans Gugelot: Die Architektur des Design

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    How I Became One of the Invisible (New Edition)

  • Sarah T. Roberts

    Behind the Screen. Content Moderation in the Shadows of…

  • Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge

    Snowden’s Box. Trust in the Age of Surveillance

  • Jungmyung Lee, Lieven Lahaye (eds.)

    Real-Time Realist #2: Typefaces don't care, Typefaces…

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    Designästhetik. Theorie und soziale Praxis

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    Surveillance Valley. The Secret Military History of the…

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    Postdramaturgien

  • Natasha Stagg

    Sleeveless. Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019

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    Sprache und Sein

  • Christine Schranz

    Augmented Spaces and Maps. Das Design von kartenbasierten…

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 389. Feminist Moments: Thoughts on graphic design…

  • Patrick Cowley

    Mechanical Fantasy Box: The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick…

  • Ted Gioia

    Music - A Subversive History

  • Ernst Hubeli

    Die neue Krise der Städte

  • Mike Davis, Jon Wiener

    Set the Night on Fire - L.A. in the Sixties

  • Marietta Kesting, Maria Muhle, Jenny…

    Hybride Ökologien

  • Pablo Sendra, Richard Sennett

    Designing Disorder. Experiments and Disruptions in the City

  • Annette Michelson, Kenneth White (Eds.)

    October Files 24: Michael Snow

  • Isabelle Sully (Ed.)

    Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Introverse Arrangements

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    Beyond Plant Blindness : Seeing the Importance of Plants…

  • George F.

    Good Times in Dystopia

  • Nathaniel Coleman

    Materials and Meaning in Architecture

  • Marion Hohlfeldt, Frank Popper

    GRAV : Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel "…

  • Marilyn Chase

    Everything She Touched. The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • Robert B. Pippin

    Filmed Thought. Cinema as Reflective Form

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    Paris Calligrammes. Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike…

  • Jennifer Clark

    Uneven Innovation. The Work of Smart Cities

  • David Scheller

    Demokratisierung der Postdemokratie. Städtische soziale…

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    Whose Tradition? Discourses on the Built Environment

  • Sally Stein

    Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender

  • Jörg Johnen

    Marmor für alle. Zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Berlin

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    Isa Genzken. Außenprojekte / Projects for Outside

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    How We Die Is How We Live Only More So

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    Clubkultur. Dimensionen eines urbanen Phänomens

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    Harun Farocki. Ich habe genug!

  • David Joselit

    Heritage and Debt. Art in Globalization

  • Carrie Noland

    Merce Cunningham. After the Arbitrary

  • Didier Eribon

    Betrachtungen zur Schwulenfrage

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    Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, and…

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    The Presence Project. Computer Related Design Research…

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    Statista. Staatskunst am Haus der Statistik

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    Smart Cities

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    The Pornographic Age

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    Das Grafische Atelier Stankowski + Duschek

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    Scheingleichheit. Drei Essays

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    Hexen. Die unbesiegte Macht der Frauen

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    Females. Everyone is female, and everyone hates it

  • Mareile Pfannebecker, James A. Smith

    Work Want Work. Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism

  • Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

    Theory for the World to Come. Speculative Fiction and…

  • Dan Byrne-Smith

    Science Fiction

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    Immanence and Immersion. On the Acoustic Condition in…

  • Anette Baldauf

    Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of…

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    Modes of Criticism 5. Design Systems

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    Hacking Urban Furniture. HUF

  • Constantine Verevis

    Flaming Creatures

  • Cornelius Cardew

    Stockhausen Serves Imperialism

  • Rebecca Coleman

    Glitterworlds. The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing

  • McKenzie Wark

    Reverse Cowgirl

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    Ways of Knowing Cities

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    Althusser and Art

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    Visuelle Zeitgestaltung

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    All Data Are Local. Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven…

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    Kapitalismus. Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie

  • Silvia Federici

    Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin. Rethinking, Remaking,…

  • João Carmo Simões

    Gulbenkian. Photography by André Cepeda

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    Die Welt wieder verzaubern. Feminismus, Marxismus &…

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    The Materials Book

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    Planet Earth: 21st Century

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    The Force of Non-Violence. An Ethico-Political Blind

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    An Apartment on Uranus

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    Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today. Essential…

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    Lefebvre for Activists [dt./engl.]

  • Siegfried Zielinski

    Variations on Media Thinking

  • Marcus White, Nano Langenheim

    The Death of Urbanism. Transitions through the stages of…

  • Sezgin Boynik, Taneli Viitahuhta (Ed.)

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Nowtopia. How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today!

Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation - technically and socially - for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.
Nowtopia uncovers the resistance of a slowly recomposing working class in America. Rarely defining themselves by what they do for a living, people from all walks of life are doing incredible amounts of labor in their "non-work" time, creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. The social networks they create, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies to confront the commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.
The practices outlined in Nowtopia embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically-driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.
With historical grounding, a toolbox drawing from multiple schools of anti-capitalist thought and theory, and a refreshingly pragmatic approach, Carlsson opens our eyes to the revolutions of everyday life.
Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project "Shaping San Francisco," is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. He has edited four collections of political and historical essays. He helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass, and was long-time editor of Processed World magazine.


Chris Carlsson
Nowtopia. How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today!
AK Press, 2008, 978-1904859772