about this book

Punk Suprematism includes the first English translations of theoretical writings on punk, art, socialism, bureaucracy, and nationalism by Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, and Zoja Skušek. Written in the first half of the 1980s, these texts are a unique mixture of punk attitude with theoretical concepts borrowed from Althusser, Lacan, and avant-garde art. Created during a turbulent period of Yugoslav socialism, they sought to understand the political significance of punk as a mass movement of impoverished youth. The conclusions of these interventions had a lasting effect on the theoretical formation of Yugoslav post-Marxism, as well as on the organizational forms of the socialist alternative.

The book also includes a foreword on the historical context of the 1980s and an extensive narrative bibliography of punk-related publications in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, written by Sezgin Boynik. Additionally, it features translations of two editorials from Punk Problemi by renowned Slovenian theoreticians.

Punk Suprematism is the first volume of the Punk Research Series. The series begins with the idea that punk is a break and will focus on punk as something completely separate from bourgeois culture./p>

This book was selected by Tique for Objects & Sounds.