{"title":"Kristin Ross","description":"Kristin Ross 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: The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Minnesota, 1988; Verso, 2008); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT, 1995); May 68 and its Afterlives (Chicago, 2002), and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015). She has also translated works by Jacques Rancière and by the militant collective, Mauvaise Troupe. She lives in Stone Ridge, New York and Paris.","products":[{"product_id":"the-emergence-of-social-space-rimbaud-and-the-paris-commune-paperback","title":"The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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 Élisée 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378552504543,"sku":"9781844672066","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XH--nb0U109781844672066.webp?v=1789258035"},{"product_id":"communal-luxury-the-political-imaginary-of-the-paris-commune-paperback","title":"Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristin Ross's highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns--internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice--frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection's survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Paris Commune was a laboratory of political invention, important simply and above all for, as Marx reminds us, its own \"working existence.\" \u003ci\u003eCommunal Luxury\u003c\/i\u003e allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of an extraordinary experiment.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379011944671,"sku":"9781784780548","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4voTc50nuj9781784780548.webp?v=1789264993"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kristin-ross.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}