Lasst es glitzern, lasst es knallen!

Contents

This book offers encounters with people who organize agriculture based on solidarity and ecological principles. It tells stories and shares experiences of people who occupy buildings in order to create non-commercial spaces of freedom. It also takes us along to protests against the G7 summit and to workplaces without bosses. The question of who can participate in such practices is itself part of the debate. Step by step, a form of politics emerges that slips through the cracks of conventional understandings of politics: the prefiguration of a horizontal society here and now, despite all its contradictions. Its forms are as diverse as the visions of social justice behind them. In public perception, they are judged in different ways and categorized as "criminal" or "experimental", "good" or "bad". Through an immersive exploration of these practices, the social utopia of horizontality begins to take shape, sometimes emerging with the glitter of utopian alternatives, sometimes with a loud bang behind barricades. Contradictions and obstacles are an integral part of the story.

The Author

Alissa occasionally publishes books, chapters and articles – mostly on topics such as the right to the city, prefigurative epistemology, questions in the philosophy of science, uprisings and socio-political dissent, self-managed autonomous spaces, and participatory action research and methodology. She has studied and completed a PhD, and lives in a collective.

Press

"One of the strengths of Starodub's writing style is her ability to break down complex topics by alternating between a narrative style and conversations with friends. In doing so, she draws on the expertise of people who engage consciously with the respective alternative projects because they are actively involved in them. For people who are in a phase of becoming politicized, or who may want to reflect on their experiences after spending some time 'in the movement', 'Political Theory and Practice for Utopia' offers an accessible source of inspiration." (Jonathan Eibisch, untergrundBlättle)