{"product_id":"politically-red-9780262047807","title":"Politically Red","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading is class struggle,\" writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines, as it were, and even behind them, Cadava and Nadal-Melsió engage in an inventive mode of activist writing to argue that reading and writing are never solitary tasks, but always collaborative and collective, and able to revitalize our shared political imagination. Drawing on what they call a \"red common-wealth\"--an archive of vast resources for doing political work and, in particular, anti-racist work--they demonstrate that sentences, as dynamic repositories of social relations, are historical and political events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. His books include \u003ci\u003eWords of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmerson and the Climates of History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePaper Graveyards\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSara Nadal-Melsió is a New York City-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher. Presently writer-in-residence at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, she has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, SOMA in Mexico City, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals, edited volumes, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eAlrededor de\/ Around\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of two special issues on cinema, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism\u003c\/i\u003e and T\u003ci\u003ehe Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e. She has recently cocurated a show on Allora \u0026amp; Calzadilla for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it, \u003ci\u003eTo Be All Ears, To Be in the World: Acoustic Relation in Allora \u0026amp; Calzadilla\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis, \u003ci\u003eA Modest Proposal: Puerto Rico's Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e. Her book \u003ci\u003eEurope and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Zone Books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648506990866,"sku":"9780262047807","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_315b3408-f6eb-43b5-82c3-2632ef86efe1.jpg?v=1733242703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/politically-red-9780262047807","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}