The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune

The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Radical Thinkers)

The 1870s in France â€“ Rimbaudâ€™s moment, and the subject of this book â€“ is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: Franceâ€™s expansion on a global scale, and, in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune â€“ the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space, as a social fact, is always political and strategic, Kristin Ross has written a book that is at once a history and geography of the Communeâ€™s anarchist culture â€“ its political language and social relations, its values, strategies, and stances.

Central to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaudâ€™s poetry. His poems â€“ a common thread running through the book â€“ are one set of documents among many in Rossâ€™s recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud, Paul Lafargue, and the social geographer Ã‰lisÃ©e Reclus serve as emblematic figures moving within and on the periphery of the Commune; in their resistance to the logic and economy of the capitalist conception of work, in their challenge to work itself as a term of identity, all three posed a threat to the existing order. Ross looks at these and other emancipatory notions as aspects of Communard life, each with an analogous strategy in Rimbaudâ€™s poetry. Applying contemporary theory, to a wealth of little-known archival material, she has written a fresh, persuasive, and original book.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
Model Illustrations
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2008-01-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781844672066

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations
Model	Illustrations
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2008-01-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781844672066

The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Radical Thinkers)

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