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[Commlist] New Book : Crisis & Communitas

Thu Jun 01 14:24:10 GMT 2023




New book

Crisis and CommunitasPerformative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics

Edited By Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera



This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes.

This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully selected instances of multipronged crises in which existing concepts of commonality are questioned, reformulated, or even speculatively designed with a (better) future in view. As many authors of this volume argue, in the face of today’s unprecedented global ecological and economic challenges speculative design is of utmost importance as it can foster alternative, unthought-of forms of connectivity that go far beyond progressivist narratives of nation, corporation, and nuclear family. Focusing on the situations of upheaval, both historical and fabulated, the collection not only examines how multipronged crises trigger antagonisms between egalitarian forms of communitas and the normative concept of the nation (and other normative forms of communities) as a community that separates and excludes. It also looks closely at philosophical and artistic projects that strive to go beyond the dichotomies and typically extrapolated utopias, envisaging new political economies, ways of living and alternative relational structures.

It will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, cultural studies, political studies, media studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, critical anthropology.

List of Contributors

Crisis and Communitas. An Introduction: Dorota Sajewska and Małgorzata Sugiera

Part I: Community as Potentiality

Chapter 1: Jeremy Gilbert, An Aesthetics of Solidarity: Collective Becoming After Neoliberalism 

Chapter 2: Małgorzata Sugiera, Speculative Communities: Designing Contact Zones in Times of Eco-Eco-Crisis 

Chapter 3: Tadeusz Koczanowicz, The Emotional Citizenship of Exile

Chapter 4: Katarzyna Bojarska, Past in Common: Departing from History

Part II: Bodies and the Communal Power

Chapter 5: Dorota Sajewska, Affective Communitas. Towards a Performative Theory of Historical Agency

Chapter 6: Dorota Sosnowska, Towards Ephemeral Communities of Care: AIDS, Political Transition, and Crisis

Chapter 7: Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Inventing Skins. Reinventing Community: Writing, Performance and Theory in Brazil (1960–2020)

Chapter 8: Nina Seiler, Maria Janion’s Frenzy: Transgressing the Crisis of 1968

Part III: Imageries of the Commons

Chapter 9: Paweł Mościcki, Sharing Image, Sharing Time. Dante, Visibility and the Common.

Chapter 10: Fabienne Liptay, Just Numbers: From Extras to Agents of an Uncountable Community

Chapter 11: Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, An Avant-Garde with its Back to the Future: Affirming the Crisis 

Chapter 12: Louise Décaillet, Assembling the Audience: The Spread of the Parliamentary Form in Contemporary Arts

Part IV: Artists Speak!

Manifest 1: Marc Streit, On Eating and Being Eaten: Notes on the zürich moves! 2019 research and contextualisation

Manifest 2: Wojtek Ziemilski, What Do We Want? Society! When Do We Want it? Now! "Come Together" and its Discontents

Manifest 3: Ema Hesterová and Peter Sit (APART collective), Torn apartIn a historical perspective. Interview with Susan Buck-Morss
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