“Decolonize Hipsters, the opening salvo in a new series of handbooks, places hipsters at the vanguard of a movement that starts with gentrification but ends with gifting Trump the White House and giving rise and misguided succour to white supremacists . . . Quoting Karl Marx through to Lemmy from Motorhead, Pierrot fleshes out the essence of modern hipsterdom and its pernicious contemporary manifestations . . . In your face for all the right reasons, it’s full of fun and thoughtful facts, interesting anecdotes and parallels that all lead in the same direction—how hipsters steal, suck up and squander what they should hold dear . . . A quick and thought-provoking read that eloquently sets an agenda, justifies it, and demands that action is taken.”
—Morning Star on Decolonize Hipsters“Shimrit Lee’s provocative and lucid book is part-investigative report where the museum resembles a crime scene and part-polemic that grapples with what it would look like to upend the current ways in which museums are organized and function. Lee makes the convincing argument that museums must fall, and it is time we start taking this imperative seriously.”
—Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa Is a Country and author of Media in Postapartheid South Africa on Decolonize MuseumsMORE OR TITLES
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OR Books is proud to announce a new series: Decolonize That! Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas. From Warscapes magazine editor Bhakti Shringarpure, these are inventive, page-turning polemics of resistance and creative regeneration.
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