War on the Social Factory
Book • 2024
Annie Paradise's "The War on the Social Factory" delves into grassroots mobilizations for community safety in Silicon Valley.
It narrates struggles and solidarity, offering a toolkit for opposing militarization and policing.
The book presents a collective ethnography of mothers and community matriarchs whose children were murdered by police.
It maps their struggles to reclaim their communities and create social infrastructure outside state-controlled security.
The book highlights practices like sustained vigils and the circulation of insurgent knowledges as resistance against violence under late racial patriarchal capitalism.
It examines carceral processes and offers counter-strategies for dynamic resistance.
It narrates struggles and solidarity, offering a toolkit for opposing militarization and policing.
The book presents a collective ethnography of mothers and community matriarchs whose children were murdered by police.
It maps their struggles to reclaim their communities and create social infrastructure outside state-controlled security.
The book highlights practices like sustained vigils and the circulation of insurgent knowledges as resistance against violence under late racial patriarchal capitalism.
It examines carceral processes and offers counter-strategies for dynamic resistance.
