{"product_id":"making-trouble-9781350162549","title":"Making Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The proof is that some crafts are so controversiallock-picking, moonshining, shoplifting, smuggling, sabotagethat they need to be controlled or even outlawed. When designers and makers touch on these contested realms, they run into trouble. This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting casesfrom illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current orderit shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will change your understanding of activism, design, and politics, fundamentally. Buy it, steal it, or read it, but most importantly: start redesigning things in your life! -- Stellan Vinthagen, Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e is a fabulous book. It offers an original and timely intervention in scholarly and activist debates and has the added benefit of being beautifully written. I fully expect it will become an instant classic in cross-disciplinary research and contentious political practice. -- Victoria Hattam, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research, New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e Back to Matter Activist Making Affirmative Making  \u003cb\u003e1. Power in the Making\u003c\/b\u003e Primitive Making Matters and Materials Making between Matter and Meta \u003cb\u003e2. State Metaxu\u003c\/b\u003e Metaxu State Space - State Matter State Meta in the Matter \u003cb\u003e3. Making Matters\u003c\/b\u003e Making Leverage Finding Material Leverage The Contents of Political Matters \u003cb\u003e4. Making Agency\u003c\/b\u003e Making Change, Making Resistance Making Material Agency Manipulating Meta \u003cb\u003e5. Doing and sitting\u003c\/b\u003e Sitting is Not Only Sitting Royal Crafts and Citizen Consumption Resistant Sitting Seated Democracies \u003cb\u003e6. Recursive Matters\u003c\/b\u003e Intensity vs Scale Making Means and Ends Meet Pulsation \u003cb\u003e7. Strategic Objectiles\u003c\/b\u003e Material Mobilization Tactical Presence and its Limitations Stitch for Senate \u003cb\u003e8. Material Counter-intelligence\u003c\/b\u003e Material Intelligence Artus and Metis The Cookies of Cunning \u003cb\u003e9. Brewing Dissent\u003c\/b\u003e Controlled Substances, Controlled Crafts Misuse and Mischief Buckets of Evidence \u003cb\u003e10. Designing Back\u003c\/b\u003e Making Civics Tangible Design and Activism Material Civic Dissidence \u003cb\u003e11. Trouble Making and Counter-crafts\u003c\/b\u003e Dangerous Makings Mapping Material Activism \u003cb\u003e12. Make it Simple\u003c\/b\u003e Making Action Spaces Making Calisthenics Stay Matter!","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738598322519,"sku":"9781350162549","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350162549.jpg?v=1720049602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-trouble-9781350162549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}