A Poetics of Resistance book launch
Okay, I’m lame. Jeff Conant launched his amazing book, A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, last night at Modern Times Bookstore. And I forgot my camera. I’ve been working with Jeff for a few years as this book was birthed, but his talk at Modern Times took me back to Day One in terms of remembering why AK Press was so stoked about it from the get-go. You really need to read this book…and use it to make sense of how and why radical propaganda works (and sometimes doesn’t). Go here for an excerpt.
There was an afterparty at the lovely Casa Bonampak, a few blocks down the street (thanks Nancy!). About five beers and two tamales into that, I realized I had a crappy cell phone camera. So here is Jeff signing one of the many copies of his book that folks grabbed.
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