Because the serial mess ups of capitalism’s present crisis—economic, political, environmental—continue to batter the realm, Black field: A checklist of the Catastrophe is a tool for recording, interpreting, and transmitting occasions as they ensue. however it deals neither dire predictions nor fake hopes. as an alternative, it embraces the secret of what may well transpire. The notice “catastrophe” has no longer continually signified “disaster”; in the course of the 16th century, specially in theater, it got here to intend “a reversal of what's expected.” Black Box is eventually a documentary undertaking, a checklist of the disaster, yet it’s an open query the place the inquiry will take us. it can be a list of the disastrous finish. Or it can be a list of the turning.
The first quantity comprises an eclectic yet available selection of reportage, interviews, letters, fragments, and theoretical responses from the various brightest minds in serious concept. Its authors have despatched dispatches from American criminal yards, the delivery graveyards of India, deadly in another country drone moves, roads crisscrossing the Mississippi Delta, childhoods in progressive Zimbabwe, and kitchens the place undocumented employees wash dishes. by means of taking a extensive geographical and aesthetic stance, Black Box may be a constellation of rules and knowledge that issues towards the future—whatever it will probably hold.
The Black field Collective emerged after numerous years of symposia, interpreting teams, summer time camps, wood-splitting, and barn-raising. The poets, newshounds, teachers, metaphysicians, artists, and strategists of the collective assemble frequently at a retired dairy farm within the foothills of the Cascade Mountains north of Seattle to discover realization, group, and the flow of communizing/commonizing currents. Black Box is our first try and gather a critique that will wake up us from the dream global that's so successfully reproduced through capitalist culture.
“What occurs when you stroll away? What occurs in case you don’t? Black Box is either a philosophy of the road and a poetics of innovative stumble upon. I supply my ecstatic aid to its ‘curriculum of shocks.’ this is often a unprecedented new magazine. each web page is voltage, orientation, verge.” —Bhanu Kapil, writer of Ban en Banlieue
“To imagine opposed to and past the human disaster that's capitalism, we have to holiday down partitions, open doorways, go thresholds, communize anyplace we can—a black field now not as containment yet as point of interest of the move of undefined, undefinable rupture.” —John Holloway, writer of Change the area with no Taking energy: The that means of Revolution Today
“Black Box subverts the implicit time table of so much media shops to disclaim the reality or to distract us from it. The magazine investigates what's, an important step in the direction of realizing what must be.” —Gabor Maté, M.D., writer of In the world of Hungry Ghosts: shut Encounters with Addiction
“Black Box is both our jointly written obituary or a time tablet of capitalism in its demise throes. Let’s make it the latter.” —Will Potter, writer of Green Is the recent crimson: An Insider’s Account of a Social stream less than Siege
“We in basic terms convey the area what it truly is scuffling with for, and realization is anything that it has to obtain, whether it doesn't are looking to. The reform of cognizance is composed only in making the area conscious of its personal attention, in awakening it out of its dream approximately itself, in explaining to it the that means of its personal activities. Our entire item can basically be … to provide spiritual and philosophical questions the shape such as guy who has turn into aware of himself.” —Karl Marx, writer of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
