Ultra-Red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry

<p>Ultra-red began as a queer techno duo during the AIDS activism era, and has since expanded into an international collective rooted in popular struggles. In the early 2000s, the collective began experimenting with militant sound inquiry synthesizing diverse forms of organized listening in Left and social movements. This first volume of <em>ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry</em>, investigates “conjunctural analysis,” or “naming the moment,” as a practice of collective inquiry, and begins with conversations with three popular educators in North America: Toronto-based activist Chris Cavanaugh; Mary Zerkel, a Chicago-based organizer and artist who produced the seminal text, Coyuntural Analysis: Critical Thinking for Meaningful Action in 1997; and Gustavo Castro Soto in Chiapas, Mexico. The <em>ULTRA-RED</em> journal connects local struggles across contexts, publishing dispatches from ongoing militant investigations in London, Los Angeles, and in prisons in the U.S. South. The journal also introduces reflections on the problems of militant sound inquiry through poetry, book responses, letters, and visual art.</p>