{"product_id":"the-emergence-of-social-space-rimbaud-and-the-paris-commune-9781844672066","title":"The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune","description":"The 1870s in France - Rimbaud's moment, and the subject of this book - is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale, and, in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune - 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 Commune's anarchist culture - its political language and social relations, its values, strategies, and stances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCentral to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaud's poetry. His poems - a common thread running through the book - are one set of documents among many in Ross's recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud, Paul Lafargue, and the social geographer  lis 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 Rimbaud's poetry. Applying contemporary theory, to a wealth of little-known archival material, she has written a fresh, persuasive, and original book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristin Ross\u003c\/b\u003e was born in State College, Pennsylvania in 1953. She attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received a PhD in French Literature from Yale in 1981. She is the author of a number of books on modern French politics and culture, all of which have been widely translated: \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1988; Verso, 2008); \u003ci\u003eFast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT, 1995); \u003ci\u003eMay 68 and its Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 2002), and \u003ci\u003eCommunal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso, 2015). She has also translated works by Jacques Ranci?re and by the militant collective, Mauvaise Troupe. She lives in Stone Ridge, New York and Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIdeology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Function of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and the Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873992970514,"sku":"9781844672066","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec648e66-d3ef-40c5-be2d-74dab2aa6f88.jpg?v=1737978686","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-emergence-of-social-space-rimbaud-and-the-paris-commune-9781844672066","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}