[Commlist] New Book : Crisis & Communitas

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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