It’s Only Going to Get Worse
02 Feb 2013, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
Living in London is difficult to describe. Londoners are full of contradictions. So many of us are keen to leave but are compelled to stay. The cost of living is high and getting higher. Rent is increasingly taking up far too much of our incomes; for me, it wavers between fifty and eighty per cent of my wages. I work part-time as a waitress, with unreliable bits of income from art projects or childcare, and my situation is echoed throughout the cultural sector. Work for most people is increasingly precarious — too much, not enough, unpaid, not contracted, unprotected &c. —Grace Kyne-Lilley
Continue Reading...Translating the Printemps Érable
02 Feb 2013, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
French-language interview with Patricia Boushel and Anna Sheftel of Translating the printemps érable, a volunteer collective whose chief activity is translating working documents and current events coverage relating to social movements in an attempt to bridge the language divide between French and English-speaking Canada. The collective was founded in the spring of 2012 in order to serve the Quebec student movement and has since broadened its mandate to include other current social movements.
Continue Reading...Autant en emporte le vent
01 Feb 2013, Posted in Articles, Feature, 0 Comments
Dans une grève, tout se situe toujours déjà à la remorque, tout essaie toujours de surfer sur la vague. La récupération fait partie du mouvement de grève. — Philippe Enver
Continue Reading...36-1/Editorial
15 Dec 2012, Posted in Articles, 0 Comments
What are Promiscuous Infrastructures? They are strategies of resistance in a hostile political and economic environment that threatens creativity. They are about community building across practices, disciplines, categories and identities. Promiscuous Infrastructures are affectionate, trustworthy, anticapitalist, antiauthoritarian, experimental and fun.
Continue Reading...#riotact
29 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
In many ways the criminal justice system maintains the illusion of effectiveness because it absolves us of our responsibilities to our communities. The trial of Pussy Riot highlights some of these dynamics, but at the same time, public support for these three individuals highlights another power dynamic centred around fame and popularity. -Jessica MacCormack and Sarah Mangle
Continue Reading...News from Ideological Antiquity
28 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, Feature, 0 Comments
Alexander Kluge’s News From Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital was released in 2008, a few months before the banking crisis in the United States sounded the death knell for the neoliberal view that history has come to an end. —Marc James Léger
Continue Reading...Unsettle and Redistribute
27 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, Feature, 0 Comments
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas’ work examines the contested field of economic, social, and political conditions in the post-socialist countries of the Former East, as well as more recently the Former West—the West that during the cold war defined itself as other than communist—and both regions’ transformations after 1989. —Alise Upitis
Continue Reading...Some Notes for Reading Chto Delat and Reartikulacija
19 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
Chto Delat (What is to be Done?) is a collaborative art project founded in 2003 that produces a semi-regular newspaper publication. Reartikulacija is a journal and online platform founded in 2007 and based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Both Chto Delat and Reartikulacija represent knowledge production as a strategy for resistance against neoliberal capitalism and necropolitics. -Alison Cooley
Continue Reading...35-4/Editorial
15 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, 0 Comments
This issue of FUSE considers the withdrawal of Soviet occupation, the renewed independence of the Baltic states, and subsequent, ongoing privatization as the context for contemporary cultures of resistance.
Continue Reading...Living In a Place With No Prisons
18 Jul 2012, Posted in Articles, Feature, 0 Comments
The art production and process of The House That Herman Built create platforms for mobilizing, and function as instigative forms of communication that ensure the continued efforts to mobilize against the ever-expanding prison-industrial complex. —Nasrin Himada
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