Prole Wave: climate change, circulation struggles & the communist horizon

An essay which serves as an introduction to this project that begins after ending Ediciones inéditas which focused on international translation.

Now we have decided to focus more on a Los Angeles-based print propaganda project.

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A recent wave of protest activity against climate change, and general environmental degradation, has been seen around the world. But curiously open revolt around the world has not centered around climate change itself, but rather around circulation struggles: the name for struggles that occur beyond the point of production; i.e. around the distribution or consumption of commodities. These struggles largely have revolved around the price of a commodity which is directly linked to climate change: petroleum.

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