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- Björk, Johannes, 1983-, et al.
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Upploppet som det absoluta konstverket
- 2023
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Ingår i: K & K. - Köpenhamn : K & K. Kultur og Klasse. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 52:134-135, s. 239-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we suggest that the notion of “aesthetic cultures of protest” can be understood as designating two broad tendencies in the contemporary field of art and politics: on the one hand, the incorporation of the protest by the art world and, on the other hand, the appropriation of aesthetic traits by social protests. To counteract the ethical immediacy of both, we turn to Theodor W. Adorno’s more dialectical understanding of the relationship between protests and the aesthetic. After being marshalled against art’s internalisation of protest, and the protests’ appropriation of the aesthetic, we assess Adorno’s notion of form and autonomy through an immanent critique that is both conceptual and historical. We argue that Adorno’s aesthetics lacks an understanding of social labour, to which it itself ascribes great conceptual significance, and that recent changes in the global composition of capital and labour has affected the role of social labour in such a way that Adorno’s tendency to identify art’s autonomy with its negativity can no longer be upheld. Finally, we argue that the characteristics, which Adorno ascribes to the work of art has migrated to, and been realised by, a form of protest which reemerged simultaneously with the death of Adorno, namely the riot.
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- Bolt Rasmussen, Mikkel, et al.
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Protestens billeder : Forord
- 2023
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Ingår i: K & K. - Århus : K & K. Kultur og Klasse. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 51:134-135, s. 3-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Prefatory article that introduces the themes, topics and articles of this special issue on the images of protest.
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- Dahlberg, Leif, Professor, 1962-
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”Hope Dies – Action Begins” : Civil olydnad och fredlig direkt aktion inom svensk klimataktivism – exemplet Extinction Rebellion
- 2023
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Ingår i: K & K. - Aarhus. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; :134-135, s. 129-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores the use of civil disobedience and non-violent direct action (NVDA) as a strategy and method in climate activism in Sweden, with a particular focus on the group Extinction Rebellion (XR). The article describes and analyzes a number of XR actions carried out in 2019-2022, with a focus on meaning-making practices. The uses of civil disobedience and NVDA are presented within a historical, cultural and social context; the question of the role and legitimacy of civil disobedience in democratic societies is discussed. XR has civil disobedience and NVDA as central strategy and in this way the group has put these protest methods in focus, and after each major action there is a need to both explain and justify their use. This is more noticeable in a Swedish cultural context that is characterized by consensus and a stigmatization of disobedience. This relationship in turn affects the planning and execution of disobedient and disruptive protest actions in Sweden. The article explores how activists in XR Sweden relate to this specific cultural context and how they try to influence it; hence XR Sweden works not only to influence those in power and public opinion regarding the climate crisis, but also on the possibilities and forms of civil political protests. The article is based on participant observation. These began in the spring of 2019 and are still ongoing. The study has an anthropological perspective, with an emphasis on semiotics and hermeneutics.
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- Franzén, Carin, 1962-
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Utopiska strategier i Christine de Pizans Kvinnostaden
- 2012
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Ingår i: K & K. - Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; :114, s. 31-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- UTOPIAN STRATEGIES IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN’S CITY OF LADIES | Christine de Pizan’s appropriation of the dominant literary discourse in the later Middle Ages is an innovative reworking of established models, especially that of the configuration of women in the two directions of idealization and debasement. In the article I assess the strategies Christine develops to counteract this dialectic in order to open a newM– utopianM– discursive space for female subjectivity. My examples are mainly taken from Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1404-1405). Late medieval representations of women incorporate a radical change from the idealization of the Lady and love in courtly literature into a more explicit misogynistic configuration, which can be seen for example in Le Roman de la Rose (c. 1230). I argue that Christine responds to this change by a disclosure of this ambiguous discourse towards what it represses, i.e. a cultural unconscious of violent and incestuous dramas.
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- Friis, Elisabeth, et al.
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Glo ikke så romantisk! : Økolitterære former
- 2020
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Ingår i: K & K. - 0905-6998. ; 48:129, s. 77-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article takes its point of departure in a contemporary Scandinavian literary debate regarding the function and possible societal impact of climate-oriented poetry and prose. Against the ecocentric, anti-modernist and anti-formalist tenets dominating this debate, Friis and Thomsen want to examine how the formal aspects of literary texts might be relevant for ecocritical work. Through critical discussion of the Scandinavian debate in relation to international ecocriticism and through analysis of two contemporary Scandinavian works of literature, the authors develop the argument that ecocritical consideration of literary form does not automatically entail anthropocentric l’art pour l’art-criticism. On the contrary, literary form is one of the ways in which literature connects to the world, challenges it, and changes the possibilities of thinking about the world, humanity, and politics both at present and in the future.
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- Götselius, Thomas, 1966-
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Lyckans administration : Politi, bildning och biopolitik i Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
- 2016
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Ingår i: K & K. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 44:121, s. 135-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article engages in the new concept of individual happiness that spread in the 18th Century and in Goethe’s pivotal novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795–96). In this novel, the process of “Bildung” is designed to lead the protagonist to happiness, but happiness turns out to be possible only if the process can be governed from the outside, by powers alien to the subject. For this reason, the article argues that the notion of happiness orchestrated in the novel is not based on a revolutionary concept of happiness or a victorious Enlightenment critique, but on a concept derived from a more local field of knowledge, namely “Polizeywissenschaft”. Central to German state reform, and the practices of local administration in the late 18th Century, “Polizeywissenschaft” was developed in order to render happiness to both states and individuals, and it did so by means of surveillance and secret intervention in everyday life. On a theoretical level, the breakthrough of ”the police” during the century could be mapped as an outcome of the transition from a sovereign power regime to a biopolitical one, in Michel Foucault’s teminology. In Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, as in the biopolitics encoded in the “Polizeywissenschaft,” the experience of happiness is thus coupled with a new way of governing life as such.
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- Hansen, Peo, 1966-, et al.
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'Europas plantage : Afrikas plats i EU:s historia'
- 2015
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Ingår i: K & K. - Odense, Denmark : Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, Syddansk Universitet. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 43:119, s. 55-74
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay describes the history of the Eurafrican project as it evolved from the Pan-European movement in the 1920s to its institutionalization in the European Economic Community (i.e. today’s EU) in the late 1950s. By way of conclusion, the article also discusses how this history affects current relations between Africa and the EU. As shown in the article practically all of the visions, movements and concrete institutional arrangements working towards European integration during this period placed Africa’s incorporation into the European enterprise as a central objective. European integration, it is argued, was thus inextricably bound up with a Eurafrican project. According to the geopolitical discourse on Eurafrica that became politically operative in the aftermath of World War II, a future European community presupposed the transformation of the strictly national colonial projects into a joint European colonization of Africa. Indeed, there is strong evidence to support that these ideas were instrumental in the actual, diplomatic and political constitution of the EU, or of Europe as a political subject. As the article shows, the history of Eurafrica, which is largely ignored in scholarship on the EU as well as in colonial studies, cannot be understood within a “continentalist” framework, but prompts a reconceptualization of the historical relation Africa and Europe.
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- Johansen, Maria, 1972
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This is the time. And this is the record of the time.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Kultur og Klasse. - 0905-6998. ; 110 2010, s. 51-74
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today’s extensive use of databases for storing identifying biometric and genetic information raises several questions on the relations between bodies, technology, information, power, human rights and personal integrity. While an individualistic understanding of the human being is inadequate as a way of approaching this complex of problems, we are also confronted with the challenge not to dissolve the subject, thus overlooking the fragility of our condition and the ways in which our bodies are being encroached. The present article attempts to meet this double challenge. Starting with the short story Fantomina: or Love in a Maze, written by Eliza Haywood during the early 18th century, and with a discussion on some relations between fiction, power and surveillance, the article investigates contemporary ways in which bodies are being inscribed in laws and captured in the trap of scription when used as proofs of identity. The article analyzes questions of identification in their historical complexity, as well as the patterns that are played out by powers of recording operating with some continuity over the past centuries. It is also suggested that so-called bodily freedoms and rights, as well as integrity, could gain in critical significance by considering the “betweeness” – the inter-est of Hannah Arendt – and the ways in which our existence presupposes the other (understood as both the world and the others conditioning us). Opposing the individualistic tradition, the law understood as a boundary thus does not enclose independent individuals in sovereign possession of themselves beyond time and space; instead, the boundary gains its significance in relation to an opaque who in continuous becoming.
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- Johansson, Anders S, 1968-
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Vad var kritiken? : Om aktivism, cynism och kritisk teori
- 2016
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Ingår i: K & K. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 44:122, s. 123-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article tries to question the premises of the critical subject. Is critique, understood as a subjective judgement, still possible, or have we reached a medial and political situation where this is no longer an option? The article turns to Horkheimer and Adorno and confronts their ideal of a critical theory with the criticism directed to it from Peter Sloterdijk. Somehow the critical thinking which the Frankfurt School inaugurated seems to have taken two directions today: either a cynical, resigned one, or an activist one. The article argues that both may be understood as attempts to preserve the subject, in the same way as Adorno was accused of by Sloterdijk. In that perspective, the possibility of critique may appear to be non-existent. However, if critique is understood, with Luc Boltanski, not as an activity performed by an individual critic, but rather by an institution, by society, the situation appears in a different light. This is, the article argues, the necessary step to take: to liberate criticism from individualism, and understand the individual critic not as the origin of critique, but as its medium.
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