01.01.CM – collection of the Museum of Ordure
Publisher: Antipyrine
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9788793108073
Description: "This new book presents over 100 covers of The Communist Manifesto, compiled from the Museum of Ordure's collection. The book is turned inside out to draw attention to its material form and historical conditions: the covers have fascinating stories to tell of hopes and anticipated futures - for instance, in their use of particular imagery and in the signs of wear through human use - and thereby draw attention to the excesses of capitalist production on multiple levels. What value do readers place upon the Manifesto in a situation where radical politics appears to have been reduced to commodity form, nostalgia or mere curiosity?" -- http://www.ordure.org.