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'This is an important book. It is important because it provides a persuasive argument for the ongoing creativity and pleasure involved in the continual transformation of the world through productive, performative encounters. We're so often reminded of the invincibility of capitalism and the inevitability of the way things are. What this book brilliantly shows is that the ""way things are"" is already better than you might think thanks to a multitude of encounters in realms of politics, education, work and leisure that are already doing things differently and, importantly, with pleasure. In the era of the Arab Spring and Occupy, Kanngieser provides a timely reminder of the political potential and actuality of doing things otherwise. What could be more important than that?' Tim Cresswell, Northeastern University, USA 'Beware! This book is not just another orderly, academic, art historical domestication of radical political practices. Not only does it represent some of the most current performative encounters as molecules of radical transformation, it becomes itself a component of inventing a new composition of art and revolutionary machines.' Gerald Raunig, Zurich University for the Arts, Switzerland

'This is an important book. It is important because it provides a persuasive argument for the ongoing creativity and pleasure involved in the continual transformation of the world through productive, performative encounters. We're so often reminded of the invincibility of capitalism and the inevitability of the way things are. What this book brilliantly shows is that the way things are is already better than you might think thanks to a multitude of encounters in realms of politics, education, work and leisure that are already doing things differently and, importantly, with pleasure. In the era of the Arab Spring and Occupy, Kanngieser provides a timely reminder of the political potential and actuality of doing things otherwise. What could be more important than that?'Tim Cresswell, Northeastern University, USA'Beware! This book is not just another orderly, academic, art historical domestication of radical political practices. Not only does it represent some of the most current performative encounters as molecules of radical transformation, it becomes itself a component of inventing a new composition of art and revolutionary machines.'Gerald Raunig, Zurich University for the Arts, Switzerland

'This is an important book. It is important because it provides a persuasive argument for the ongoing creativity and pleasure involved in the continual transformation of the world through productive, performative encounters. We're so often reminded of the invincibility of capitalism and the inevitability of the way things are. What this book brilliantly shows is that the way things are is already better than you might think thanks to a multitude of encounters in realms of politics, education, work and leisure that are already doing things differently and, importantly, with pleasure. In the era of the Arab Spring and Occupy, Kanngieser provides a timely reminder of the political potential and actuality of doing things otherwise. What could be more important than that?' Tim Cresswell, Northeastern University, USA 'Beware! This book is not just another orderly, academic, art historical domestication of radical political practices. Not only does it represent some of the most current performative encounters as molecules of radical transformation, it becomes itself a component of inventing a new composition of art and revolutionary machines.' Gerald Raunig, Zurich University for the Arts, Switzerland

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Anja Kanngieser, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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