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Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago From 2000-2005

Location

PO Box 476971
60647 Chicago, IL
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Magazine Trashing the Neoliberal City
Date: 
2007
Issue: 
003
Abstract: 
Amid the neoliberal transformation of Chicago--which extends capitalist market domination into every sphere, and substitutes competition and consumption for solidarity and social justice--the editors felt an urgent need to reclaim, rebuild, and redefine public space. The publication documents a period of cultural activism in Chicago stretching from 2000 to 2005, and covers various projects and organizations that responded to neoliberal restructuring. Topics include collective infrastructures, protest experiments, gentrification, public housing, and urban planning. (Adapted from introduction.)
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Publication was developed during the editor's research visit to the Learning Site in Copenhagen, Denmark. United States contact for more information is AREA Chicago. (From back cover.)
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ISSN/ISBN: 
8792065007

Rev News

Date: 
Fall-Winter 1996
Volume: 
1
Issue: 
2
Abstract: 
a zine dedicated to rebuilding a "militant, class-conscious labor movement" and covering workers' rights issues
Language: 
English
Spanish
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The Case for Socialism

Catalog Number: 
Book, Maass
Date: 
2004
Abstract: 
Suggesting socialism as an alternative to capitalism, the author of the book asserts this by presenting various cases of dysfunctions seen in capitalist societies, which are not mere coincidents but the very results of the capitalist system. Other parts of the book discuss how socialism is thus necessary and also possible.
Language: 
Eng.
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First published in 2001 as "Why You Should Be a Socialist" by International Socialist Organization
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ISSN/ISBN: 
193185909-4

Swagger

Catalog Number: 
n.4
Date: 
2005
Volume: 
Vol. 1, Number 2
Abstract: 
A short-lived free magazine on a variety of topics, priding itself on being “the most brazen magazine in Chicago.” Features on: Car horns, Bible of the Devil, cheap living, Chicago’s love affair with skyscrapers and Donald Trump, a primer on Wal-Mart, Terry Schiavo and rights to control your own body, Ipecac Records and Chocolate Industries, the male orgasm, the logging industry, Garbage Pail Kids, television crime dramas
Language: 
eng
Notes: 
Not a great copy; entire magazine still available online.
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Terry Plumming issue HZ-1D8

Catalog Number: 
z.27
Date: 
2004
Volume: 
Vol. 1
Abstract: 
Terry Plumming, published in Chicago, contains graphic work of a more "my roommate just gave me a whole ton of meth and now I think the walls are made of armpits" style. The jaggy drawings and contorted slogans that pack each page compliment the accompanying CD. Quite often a Terry Plumming CD makes me feel as if I'm hosting a seance through an AM radio and channeling the best of the noise tape-trading scene. Vital to the hope of any futher human mutation.
Language: 
eng
Notes: 
CDR included, abstract borrowed from Lumpen
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Autonomy: for Individual & Collective Self-Rule

Date: 
May 2000
Volume: 
May Day 2000
Abstract: 
self-published zine of various essays, articles and excerpts pertaining to anarchism throughout history and today, especially in the United States and the Chicagoland area
Language: 
eng
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distributed in Homewood, IL
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na

Marginal State

Catalog Number: 
b.3.26
Date: 
2006
Volume: 
1st ed
Abstract: 
<p>From the introduction: &quot;Poetry as Social Engagement.&quot;</p><p> &quot;Through distilled verse and hard imagery, I expose the effects of our social, cultural, and political practices on the human condition. My poetry explores the twisting of language for both political and personal gain. Growing up in domestic violence taught me about structures of power and dominance, about the use of violence and fear in order to control, and about the role of language in breaking the spirit.&quot;<br /></p>
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eng
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ISSN/ISBN: 
1-933126-24-8