Claire Fontaine

Verden er i forandring, de gamle koordinater for klassekampen er ubrugelige, og sammenbruddet af den senkapitalistiske verdensorden er helt åbenlyst i gang, hvad enten man kan lide det eller ej.I forlængelse af en venstrekommunistisk tradition for historisk analyse og kritisk tænkning, fra Rosa Luxemburg over Karl Korsch og Walter Benjamin til Guy Debord og Jacques Camatte og frem til Roswitha Scholz, sætter vi fokus på klassekampens historiske og nuværende repræsentationsformer. Strejken, som vi ønsker at pointere med Luxemburg, er ikke blot et pressionsmiddel i kampen for bedre lønvilkår men en historisk specifik form for konfliktoptrapning i en uforsonlig klassekamp, der ændrer sig organisk i takt med kapitalakkumulationen. Spørgsmålet er så, om strejken fortsat har en rolle at spille i dag, hinsides traditionelle forestillinger om arbejderklassen og klassekampen?

Cette anthologie propose une s lection de textes de l'artiste collective Claire Fontaine, fond e Paris en 2004. La pratique de l' criture constitue une partie int grante de sa recherche, aussi bien visuelle que conceptuelle, autour des questions de la valeur, la libert , l' conomie et le f minisme. Les textes ici r unis ont des registres diff rents qui vont du th orique au po tique, de la lettre ouverte au manifeste politique. Ils convergent souvent vers l'horizon de ce que l'auteure appelle la gr ve humaine , une r volte qui s'oppose toutes les formes d'exploitation et pas seulement celles de nature professionnelle. Ce livre d'artiste est le t moignage d'une exploration toujours en cours, une bo te outils existentielle pour nous sortir du sentiment touffant de notre impuissance politique.

In this volume, passionate texts from the last decade by artist and theory collective Claire Fontaine are brought together with an extended concluding essay and foreword. Moving across militant, aesthetic and poetic registers these texts consider what resistance might look like in the age of human capital, where all dimensions of the self are infiltrated and conscripted by capital in its pursuit of value. Their answer is the human strike - a strike against the demands on the self imposed by power - in the interest of 'changing ourselves', becoming who we want to become. This strike has been happening all along, throughout history, but has today reached a peak of political consciousness. This book was commissioned to accompany the Post-Media Lab's 'The Subsumption of Sociality' research theme. Published by Mute Books and Post-Media Lab

Glamour magazine called Come Back, the first nonfiction collaboration by Claire and Mia Fontaine, the "best mother-daughter memoir," while the New York Times Book Review praised it as, "a testament to the power of the love."The Fontaines are back with Have Mother, Will Travel, a beautiful, thoughtful, insightful, inspiring book that brilliantly captures the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter. Seen within the context of an unforgettable round-the-world adventure, the emotional milestones reached and the new understandings and appreciations achieved will warm the heart and nourish the soul--an extraordinary journey that should not be missed by armchair travelers and by mothers and daughters everywhere.

In powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the amazing journey they took to find their way back to each other. Claire Fontaine's relentless cross-country search for her missing child and ultimate decision to force her into treatment in Eastern Europe is a gripping tale of dead ends, painful revelations, and, at times, miracles. Mia Fontaine describes her refuge in the seedy underworld of felons and addicts as well as the jarring shock of the extreme, if loving, school that enabled her to overcome depression and self-loathing. Both women detail their remarkable process of self-examination and healing with humor and unsparing honesty.Come Back is an unforgettable true story of love and transformation that will resonate with mothers and daughters everywhere.