- Published: 1 November 2018
- ISBN: 9781910924105
- Imprint: Watkins
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $29.99
The Ballerina and the Bull
Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance
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- Published: 1 November 2018
- ISBN: 9781910924105
- Imprint: Watkins
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $29.99
"Johanna Isaacson's book is a vital testament to the fragile utopias that inhabit our precarious present. Exploring the 'expressive negations' of punk through the 80s and 90s, Isaacson beautifully reconstructs the prehistory of current revolts in these attempts to rupture the banality of capitalist life. The Ballerina and the Bull is a salutary call to refuse calls to 'maturity' and 'realism,' which sanction things as they are, and instead to return to those supposedly 'childish' refusals, which are our real utopias." --Benjamin Noys, author of Malign Velocities