Alachua County-based David Vaina will share his new book, “On-Ramps to a New Civil Society,” an autonomist reimagining of labor, value, mutual aid, and revolution, at the Civic Media Center on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2pm.
He will be in conversation with Jimmy Dunson, the Tampa-based co-founder of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, and welcomes local organizers of mutual aid to join the discussion. Books will be on sale at the event or to borrow from the CMC.
Book description: Climate change has long degraded human communities and the natural world but is increasingly articulated on a more profound scale. In “On-Ramps to a New Civil Society: Mutual Aid at the Edges of the Anthropocene,” David Vaina explores this historical moment of institutional decline, where a political void has emerged in addressing our life-giving needs through the human and non-human worlds. Mutual aid continues to develop as a long-term social practice operating to heal and regenerate these two worlds. As it matures and seeks to acquire dual power, mutual aid is advancing a three-part strategy realized by new labor, political, and ontological forms that are collectively contributing to a new, radical civil society.
The Civic Media Center is located at 433 South Main St. in Gainesville.