"We Are Nothing and So Can You We Are Nothing and So Can You is a book-length poem for the long 21st century to come, a poem of revolts past, present, and future. In alternating passages of rhapsodic verse and speculative prose, Bernes plots the dynamic movement of history, both irreversible and recursive, moving forward directly and by twists and turns, in sentences and lines, standing still and hurtling toward the abyss. This is an epi ..."
"A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives. Over the last few decades, we have seen the shift from an economy based on the production of goods to one based on the provision of services, the entry of large numbers of women into the workforce, and the emergence of n ..."
Starsdown by JasperBernes Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 2007 by In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni ISBN-13: 978-1-934639-02-3, ISBN: 1-934639-02-8
"Poetry. Jasper Bernes's magnificent and multi-layered first book, STARSDOWN, emerges as a record of Los Angeles as its physical space collapses into specters and marks, where "the sky is a swimming pool" and the signs and stars keep switching places. Beneath the glittering surface of the last American city, this book animates the profusion of irreconcilable vernaculars and histories that the city's "pastel-washed meta-burglaries" have c ..."
"Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black
Study (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2013), 49. 46. Fred Moten, Hughson's Tavern
(New York: Leon Works, 2008), 57. 47. Harney and Moten, The Undercommons,
30. 48. Adam Fitzgerald, “An Interview with Fred Moten, Part II: On Radical
Indistinctness and Thought Flavor à la Derrida,” Lithub, August 6, 2015. 49.
Moten, “Black Optimism/Black Operation,” 2. 50. Fitzger ..."
Endnotes 3 Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes by JasperBernes, Chris Chen Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Endnotes ISBN-13: 978-1-62049-025-9, ISBN: 1-62049-025-0
"This issue of Endnotes has been a long time coming. Its publication was delayed due to experiences and conversations that compelled us to clarify our analyses, and at times to wholly rework them. Many of the articles in this issue are the products of years of discussion. Some articles spilled over into such lengthy pieces that we had to split the issue in two. Endnotes 4 will therefore be forthcoming, not in another three years, but rat ..."
Endnotes 3 by JasperBernes, Chris Chen Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Endnotes ISBN-13: 978-0-9933699-2-6, ISBN: 0-9933699-2-8
"Endnotes is a journal/book series published by a discussion group based in Germany, the UK and the US. It is primarily oriented towards conceptualising the conditions of possibility of a communist overcoming of the capitalist mode of production and of the multiple structures of domination which pattern societies characterised by that mode of production starting from present conditions. As such it has been concerned with debates in commu ..."
"Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth-century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present? "Communization" is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Southern California, and wherever the real abstractions of value that shape our lives are contested. Evolving on the terrain o ..."