| Ryan Griffis on Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:51:19 +0200 (CEST) |
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Schulman’s book and personal reflections on ACT-UP’s significance, David. It definitely sounds like it’s worth checking out, even if one has read/viewed much of the other accounts of ACT-UP, so I really appreciate your taking the time to post this! I also wanted to make a plug for another, slightly older (and more academic) book by Debbie Gould - ”Moving Politics” that also focuses on the role of affect in ACT-UP and AIDS activism, just in case others are interested in more reading. A PDF is even available here: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-15_60f0412da8a40_deborah-gould-moving-politics-emotion-and-act-ups-fight-against-aids.pdf Take care, Ryan > On Jul 30, 2021, at 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > My interest in this book is partly the result of being part of a group > who organised The Sero Positief Bal an HIV AIDS event held in Amsterdam. > We invited a number of the individuals featured in the book not only > from the New York chapter of ACT UP but from many locations. I later > went to New York to assemble ACT UP graphics for a small exhibition at > the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. It was then that I was able to attend a > couple of the legendary Monday evening meetings at Cooper Union. Gregg > Bordowitz was moderating with Alexis Dansig. I have never before or > since encountered anything that matched the energy and dynamism of those > meetings. > > That said the visit of the ACTUPers to our well meaning but flawed event > in Amsterdam was not a happy encounter as we were roundly critiqued by > ACT UP for our efforts. But the impact of their work and its > implications on a number of us was profound. So much of the above you > might recognise in the politics and aesthetics of ?Tactical Media?. It > is no coincidence that the first edition of Next 5 Minutes followed a > year later. > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: