By The Groundswell Collective
Cambridge, MA: The Groundswell Collective, 2010
Pages: 48
Dimensions: 6” in x 9” in
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect bound
Process: digital
Color: color cover, b&w throughout
Edition Size: unknown
ISBN: none

We are pleased to present the first journal published by our friends and bartering partners, The Groundswell Collective.

They write of the journal:

Our first edition will focus on crisis folklore. How we imagine future stories that describe our current time period can give us an alternative glimpse of the cultures we are shaping in the here-and-now. To get outside of the modes of analysis we typically offer, we look for the future storytellers, asking what are the tales of resistance in the post-crash era? Crisis being a daily reality, where do we locate our collective daydreams? Can we accurately envision these future stories for ourselves and for others?

Topics include:

* Counter-cultural or resistant reworkings of contemporary problems
* Shifts in the language of dissent, movement, and movements
* Sociological mis/understandings of shifts in folklore in response to crisis
* Possibilities for subversion, especially via art
* Imagined criticisms, counter-hegemonic creation myths, forecasted histories, pre-emptive sense-making, etc.

Including offerings from Real Estate for Ransom, Team Colors, Basekamp, Chris Kennedy, and other influential authors yet to be announced.