Communal Luxury
Book description
Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns-internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological…
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1 author picked Communal Luxury as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The best historians and anthropologists either draw you into a subject as if you were living it or they directly connect their topic to life in the here and now.
Kristin Ross does both in Communal Luxury which crystalizes a radical imaginary drawn from a vividly reproduced past and posits it as a contemporary manifesto. An irresistible re-reading of the Paris Commune and all it stands for in the present and, more particularly, for our joint futures.
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