{"product_id":"ultra-red-a-journal-of-militant-sound-inquiry","title":"ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry","description":"\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eFor their thirtieth anniversary, Ultra-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, \u003c\/em\u003einvestigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn the words of Ultra-red, “No movement without listening!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe initial issue of\u003cem\u003e ULTRA-RED\u003c\/em\u003e examines “conjunctural analysis,” or “naming the moment,” as a practice of collective inquiry. The issue begins with conversations with three popular educators in North America who, in the 1990s, developed a body of literature meant to guide radical groups through an inquiry into what Stuart Hall once called, the history of the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIt includes a discussion with Toronto-based activist Chris Cavanaugh who participated in numerous conjunctural analysis efforts in political movements across Canada. In 2000, Cavanaugh helped start the Catalyst Project as a center for working-class and leftist education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe next interview features Mary Zerkel, a Chicago-based organizer and artist who produced the seminal text, \u003cem\u003eCoyuntural Analysis: Critical Thinking for Meaningful Action\u003c\/em\u003e in 1997. Zerkel talks about the relationship between her organizing work in local anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggles as well as her involvement in numerous political art collectives in Chicago. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe journal also features an extended conversation with Gustavo Castro Soto in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Castro Soto is known internationally as the last person to have been with Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres when she was assassinated by paramilitaries in 2016. Recently known for his anti-extractivist efforts in Central America, Castro Soto was part of a team in the late 1990s that produced a ten-volume series of booklets guiding people through the history and political praxis of conjunctural analysis, \u003cem\u003eMetodología de Análisis de Coyuntura\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eULTRA-RED\u003c\/em\u003e journal connects local struggles across contexts, publishing dispatches from ongoing militant investigations in London, Los Angeles, and in prisons in the U.S. South. The journal also introduces reflections on the problems of militant sound inquiry through poetry, book responses, letters, and visual art. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe journal is edited by Dont Rhine in collaboration with David Albright and Christina Sanchez Juarez. It includes contributions by Tony Carfello, Janna Graham, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, Chris Jones, Karla, Elliot Perkins, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, and Robert Sember. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ultrared.org\/mission.html\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUltra-red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e began as a queer techno duo coming out of AIDS activism. Since starting in 1994, Ultra-red has expanded into an international collective rooted in different popular struggles such as anti-racism and anti-gentrification. In the early 2000s, the collective began experimenting with militant sound inquiry synthesizing diverse forms of organized listening in Left and social movements. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rab-Rab Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49398237069642,"sku":"29842530","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/f.jpg?v=1728906949","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/ultra-red-a-journal-of-militant-sound-inquiry","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}