Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Volume Two

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As the serial disasters of capitalism's crisis continue to batter the world, Black Box is a device for recording, analysing, and transmitting events as they happen. But it offers neither dire predictions nor false hopes. Instead, it embraces the mystery. The second volume brings together reports from North African refugee camps in Europe; thinkers ruminating on Walter Benjamin while walking the streets of Palestine; a freezing night in Tucson, Arizona; a London cityscape that reflects the architectural power of finance capitalism; meetings of French Maoists in the 1960s; and much more.

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"Black Box subverts the implicit agenda of most media outlets to deny the truth or to distract us from it. The journal investigates what is a necessary step toward understanding what needs to be." --Gabor Mat, MD, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Black Box is either our collectively written obituary or a time capsule of capitalism in its death throes. Let's make it the latter." --Will Potter, author, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
"To think against and beyond the human catastrophe that is capitalism, we need to break down walls, open doors, cross thresholds, communize wherever we can--a black box not as containment but as focal point of the movement of undefined, undefinable rupture." --John Holloway, author, Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today
"What happens if you walk away What happens if you don't Black Box is both a philosophy of the street and a poetics of revolutionary encounter. Every page is voltage, orientation, verge." --Bhanu Kapil, author, Ban en Banlieue

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The Black Box Collective is composed of poets, journalists, academics, metaphysicians, artists, and strategists who gather regularly at a retired dairy farm in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains north of Seattle to explore themes of consciousness, community, and circulation of the communizing current--and to discover and assemble a critique that will wake us from the dream world that is seamlessly reproduced by capitalist culture. They are based in Seattle.