{"product_id":"on-the-eve-of-the-cybercultural-revolution-black-power-and-capitalism-in-the-1960s-hardback-9781517913922","title":"On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution; Black Power and Capitalism in the 1960s (Hardback) 9781517913922","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Power and Capitalism in the 1960s\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Bartell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517913922\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncovering the Black Power movement’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive look at the Black Power movement’s theoretical work and insights into the entanglement of capitalism, technology, and racism. Drawing upon James and Grace Lee Boggs’s expanded notion of the cybercultural era, Brian Bartell demonstrates how a range of artists, writers, and activists from the 1960s prefigured the wider discourse around automation and made it a central concern of their politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Rather than reducing automation to an isolated technical phenomenon, theorists of the Black radical tradition identified its important historical antecedents in colonialism and plantation slavery, emphasizing how the emerging cyberculture joined with issues such as the reorganization of labor, ecological harm, and racial inequality. Examining the work of Martin Luther King Jr., Noah Purifoy, the Black Panthers, and others, \u003ci\u003eOn the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e outlines the new forms of social reproduction conceived outside of the dominant structures of racial capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bartell synthesizes a wide range of source texts, including political speeches, literature, and activist archives, to show how the Black Power movement sought to create a postscarcity, more-than-capitalist economy. By shedding light on the movement’s underexplored engagement with theories of technology, he provides a crucial key to understanding the historical dynamics responsible for our technocapitalist present. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution”: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Triple Revolution \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Initiating a New Plateau: Automation, Political Ecology, and Activity in the Work of James and Grace Lee Boggs \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Value in the Materialist World: Reading Noah Purifoy’s \u003ci\u003e66 Signs of Neon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Material Imperialism and the IBM Machine: Paule Marshall’s \u003ci\u003eThe Chosen Place, the Timeless People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. “DRUM Would Like to Welcome You to the Plantation”: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers’ Expanded Theory of Production \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. The Black Panthers: “People’s Community Control of Modern Technology” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619257610520,"sku":"9781517913922","price":65.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-the-eve-of-the-cybercultural-revolution-black-power-and-capitalism-in-the-1960s-hardback-9781517913922","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}