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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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- 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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- 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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- Johansson, Sven Anders, 1968-
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”Jag är bara här” : Humanvetenskaperna, klimataktivismen och apatin som möjlighet
- 2024
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Ingår i: K & K. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 52:137, s. 87-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article takes as its starting point Leo Tolstoy’s character Pierre Bezukhov. His passive presence at the battle of Borodino, in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, is contrasted with today’s climate activism, exemplified by the Swedish human ecologist Andreas Malm. In his book How to Blow up a Pipeline, Malm argues that global warming forces scientists and scholars to become activists, and activists to turn to violence. This analysis, the article argues, is based on a simplistic notion of action (”one acts or one does not”) and a strong conviction of being right. If this certitude is problematic, it is also typical of our time. Where, then, does this tendency to simplify the complicated, and replace all uncertainty with sureness, come from? One answer is that activism requires determination, which in its turn presupposes access to the truth. Another explanation lies in the binary operations of the digital media we all rely upon. At the most basic level, these operations exclude all approximation, all nuances, all doubt: the options are one or zero. Against this background, it becomes crucial to defend a research practice that refrains from simplifications. In Sloterdijk, the article finds an argument for interrupting the affective impulses that reach us constantly. From Popper, it fetches an understanding of research as an event. Via Marx’s well-known formulation that philosophers must change the world, not just interpret it, the text then moves to Adorno’s defense of theoretical thinking. The question is, however, whether critical theory has any edge left. Has it not just become a part of the academic apparatus it once reacted against? The article finds an answer in Lyotard, and his idea of a theoretical apathy. This idea reminds a lot of the starting point of the article: Pierre Bezukhov’s comic but clear-sighted passivity on the battlefield.
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- Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-, et al.
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Indledning – Mellem Eurafrika og Afropa
- 2015
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Ingår i: K & K. - : Syddansk Universitet. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 43:119, s. 3-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Grænsen mellem Europa og Afrika er både flydende og fast. Det er en reali-tet som erkendes af de mange tusinde bådflygtninge, som hvert år drukner i deres forsøg på at krydse den hårdt håndhævede usynlige linje, som skæ-rer sig gennem Middelhavet. For selvom tragedien er alt for håndgribelig, er den også i en vis forstand et skue, som på en gang tjener til at forsikre europæerne om, at grænsen er fast og bevogtet, og til at bekræfte dem i deres medlidenhed med de flygtende andre. Når vi ser billederne fra Mid-delhavet forsikres vi om, at vi er i sikkerhed (om end truet), men vi får også mulighed for at vise vores humanitære side ved at forlange en mere human hjemsendelse af staklerne til Afrika på den anden side.Bidragene skal måske derfor ses som fragmenter i en større sammen-hæng, hvor Skandinavien og Europa konfronteres med et mindre smig-rende billede af det forgangne, og hvor europæere såvel som afrikanere får mulighed for at afprøve nye relationer og identiteter. Men fremfor alt tilhører de en sammenhæng, hvor flere af de traditioner, som længe har præget europæisk humaniora og samfundsvidenskab, støder mod sine be-grænsninger, tvinges til at gentænke sine begreber og opfinde nye kategori-er til en verden, hvor relationen er konstitutiv for enhver identitet, og hvor ethvert sted er en mødeplads for verdens trafik. Som krisen i Middelhavet viser med al ønskværdig tydelighed, er der ingen, der vinder ved at gøre grænsen mellem Afrika og Europa fastere – på nordsiden medfører det en tiltagende kulturel og menneskelig forarmelse, på sydsiden at mennesker sendes i døden.
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- Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-, et al.
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Mellem Eurafrika og Afropa
- 2015
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Ingår i: K & K. - Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 43:119, s. 3-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bidragene skal måske derfor ses som fragmenter i en større sammen-hæng, hvor Skandinavien og Europa konfronteres med et mindre smig-rende billede af det forgangne, og hvor europæere såvel som afrikanere får mulighed for at afprøve nye relationer og identiteter. Men fremfor alt tilhører de en sammenhæng, hvor flere af de traditioner, som længe har præget europæisk humaniora og samfundsvidenskab, støder mod sine be-grænsninger, tvinges til at gentænke sine begreber og opfinde nye kategori-er til en verden, hvor relationen er konstitutiv for enhver identitet, og hvor ethvert sted er en mødeplads for verdens trafik. Som krisen i Middelhavet viser med al ønskværdig tydelighed, er der ingen, der vinder ved at gøre grænsen mellem Afrika og Europa fastere – på nordsiden medfører det en tiltagende kulturel og menneskelig forarmelse, på sydsiden at mennesker sendes i døden.
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