Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj-Quality Guarantee

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”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search … Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.”

In an extraordinary exchange of letters, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova,imprisoned for taking part in Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin performance,and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek discuss artistic subversion,political activism, and the future of democracy via the ideas of Hegel,Deleuze, Nietzsche, and even Laurie Anderson.

Two radicals, onein a Russian forced labor camp, the other writing to her from faroutside its walls, show passionately – across linguistic andgenerational divides – that “there is still a common cause worthfighting for.” Touching, erudite, and worldly, their correspondence unfolds with poetic urgency.

In association with Philosophie Magazine.