The editors and editorial board of Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action are pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of the journal, which is available for free access at
<http://www.affinitiesjournal.org>
This issue is on the theme of Autonomous Spaces, and is guest edited by Enda Brophy. The Table of Contents and Journal Description can be found below. Further information on the journal can be found on the site.
Table of Contents ----------------
Journal Editors' Introduction Richard Day & Sarita Srivastava
The Voices of Autonomy Enda Brophy
Long live temporariness: Two queer examples of autonomous spaces B. Vanelslander
A window onto Italy’s social centres Assembled and translated by Steve Wright
On the social centres: An interview with Roberto Ciccarelli Interviewed and translated by Enda Brophy
Recovering and recreating spaces of production: A virtual roundtable with protagonists of Argentina’s worker-recovered enterprises movement Assembled and translated by the Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry
Autonomous capacity building: Zapatista bases of support, radical commercial corridors, and the battle for the horizon in the urban US Ryan Hollon and Karen Lopez
Is slash an alternative medium? “Queer” heterotopias and the role of autonomous media space in radical world building Nathan Rambukkana
‘Outlaw’ bicycling Chris Carlsson
Latin America’s Autonomous Organizing Marie Trigona
Journal Description ------------------
Affinities is a web-based journal that focuses on groups, movements, and communities that set out to construct sustainable alternatives to the racist, hetero-sexist system of liberal-capitalist nation-states. We are interested in questions such as: What kind of experiments are out there, beyond the state and corporate forms? How are they working, what obstacles are they encountering? How do we build lasting culture(s) of resistance and (re-)construction? As one of the goals of Affinities is to acknowledge and strengthen the links that exist between academic, activist, and artistic communities, we are committed to publishing academic and activist writing, as well as other forms of radical cultural production.