Democracy in crisis

Democracy in crisisThis volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

actions and alliances for diverse individuals and groups

The contributors to this book discuss the ways in which various fan cultures have sprung up around the stories and how they have proved to be a strong cultural paradigm for the ways in which these phenomena function in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

In four thematic sections

fit together and support each other so well that I can only suspect my subconscious of having planned them as chapters of one book from the start

Instead of the finite event of producing an artifact

a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena) and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea)

unconventional social arrangements and shared intimacies between performer and audience

audiences are denigrated as trivial

based on a new way of viewing language

and an interview with Schlingensief himself provides the reader with insight into past and present projects

This book identifies two countervailing impulses in media coverage of Bloody Sunday and its legacy

This collection also investigates the politics and democratization of space through an examination of art