The Political Theory of Salvage 1438491190, 9781438491196

The use of what others have thrown away by those who squat in abandoned buildings, build neighborhoods on seeming wastel

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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter Outlines
Conclusion
Chapter 1 Salvage and Politics
Introduction
Occupations, Squats, Informal Communities: Political Salvage
The Affect of Salvage
More than Just a Bottle: Plasticity and Salvage Labor
Spaces of Salvage
Salvage Communities
Conclusion: Salvaging Anticapitalism
Chapter 2 Sense, Becoming, and Political Salvage
Introduction
Sensing Contingency, Sensing Salvage
Capitalist Affect
Love Is Depressing, or Anticapitalist Affects
Affect and Politics, or Becoming Anticapitalist Salvagers
Chapter 3 The Craft of Salvage
Introduction
The Body and Craftwork
The Rhythms of Resistance
Craft and Radical Salvage Workshops
The Craft of Salvage and Radical Workshops
Chapter 4 Salvage and the City
Introduction
Rhythms of the City
Liberated Salvage Space
Salvage as Anticapitalist Inhabitation
The City as the Landscape of Salvage?
Chapter 5 Choreographing Anticapitalist Salvage
Introduction
Spaces of Salvage Occupation
Anticapitalist Choreography
Tactics of Anticapitalist Choreography—Corridors and Thresholds
Radical Choreography: Neighborhood Labyrinths
The Choreography of Anticapitalist Salvage
Chapter 6 Salvage and the Politics of the Commons
Introduction
Rebirth of the Commons
Commons Biopolitics
Salvaging the Multitude
Tactics of the Salvage Multitude
Objectives of the Salvage Multitude
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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