ULTRA RED VOL 1

The first volume of ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, dedicated to naming the moment, investigates movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education.

The initial issue of ULTRA-RED examines “conjunctural analysis,” or “naming the moment,” as a practice of collective inquiry. The issue begins with conversations with three popular educators in North America who, in the 1990s, developed a body of literature meant to guide radical groups through an inquiry into what Stuart Hall once called, the history of the present.

The journal is edited by Dont Rhine in collaboration with David Albright and Christina Sanchez Juarez. It includes contributions by Tony Carfello, Janna Graham, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, Chris Jones, Karla, Elliot Perkins, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, and Robert Sember.

Ultra-red began as a queer techno duo coming out of AIDS activism. Since starting in 1994, Ultra-red has expanded into an international collective rooted in different popular struggles such as anti-racism and anti-gentrification. In the early 2000s, the collective began experimenting with militant sound inquiry synthesizing diverse forms of organized listening in Left and social movements.

published by Rab-Rab Press
graphic design by Ott Kagovere
2024, 246 pages, 22 x 14 cm