Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement by Hunt, Irvin J.
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement by Hunt, Irvin J.

Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest...
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Author: Irvin J. Hunt
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Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement by Hunt, Irvin J.

Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement

BD$67.63
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement by Hunt, Irvin J.

Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement

BD$67.63
Author: Irvin J. Hunt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin Hunt argues that their primary need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. From a remarkably diverse archive, Hunt extrapolates three new ways to describe the time of a movement: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a simultaneity, a kind of all-at-once-ness. These temporalities reflect how a people maneuvered the law, reappropriated property, built autonomous communities, and fundamentally reimagined what a movement can be. Their movement was not the dream of a brighter day; it was the making of today out of the stuff of dreams. Hunt offers both an original account of Black mutual aid and, in a world of diminishing futures, a moving meditation on the possibilities of the present.



Author: Irvin J. Hunt
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781469667935

About the Author
Hunt, Irvin J.: - Irvin J. Hunt is assistant professor of English and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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