Protest - Ein Zukunftspraxis /allemand: Eine Zukunftspraxis - Softcover

ROGGER BASIL

 
9783037785591: Protest - Ein Zukunftspraxis /allemand: Eine Zukunftspraxis

Synopsis

«Make Love Not War», «Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible», «No power for nobody», «We are the 99%» – through the history of past decades, a constant stream of resistive expressions and practices in view of the prevailing conditions. What penetrates from the edges of society in their midst, mostly disordered and irrepressible, sometimes violent, rarely controllable, breaks track in the form of a protest. This takes place in (real or virtual) rooms and is carried out by (equally real and virtual) bodies. The spaces and the bodies to which the protest refers are those of politics and society. Virtuous and creative, he uses the current signs and symbols, infiltrates and transforms them, creating new aesthetics and meanings, thus opening up a space beyond control. Irony, subversion, provocation are means to move small but noticeable needle pricks from the position of powerlessness to the controlling system of rule. The publication protest. presents and reflects current and past forms of protest and looks at the resistive practices of marginalized communities from a wide range of perspectives. Social and cultural history, sociological and politological perspectives play a role in it as well as image theoretical, popular cultural or cultural studies approaches or current positions from the arts. In particular, current developments are taken into account such as the virtualization of protest, its turn into fictional or its instrumentalisation in the politics of rulers of all colours.

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