Key-words, concepts and questions for our final project:
1) Democracy: What are the limits of representative democracy?
2) Dissent: Should all art be responsible for creating dissent?
3) Hegemony: can representative democracy exist without hegemony?
4) The political X Politics
5) Is performance always political? Is politics always a performance?
6) How current political actors have mobilized performances from the past in their public appearances? What has been “hunting” current political affairs?
7) Bodily participation X Non-bodily participation in the political debate: This comes to mind in relation to Balibar’s text (on page 17 he mentions “the bodily disposition of individuals”). The differences between “bodily participation” and “non-bodily participation” in a moment when political campaigns focus so much on our digital interactions, bring to the fore the importance of non-bodily participatory politics.
8) “Resistance is always opportunistic”. How contemporary social movements can be thought in relation to this axiom?
9) Does contemporary art still have the potential for “turning society upside down” (Brecht 185)?
10) If spectators are “taught to refrain from intervening or resisting the hegemonic vision of persuasive drama” (Taylor 77), what happens when the political debate is staged to look like a spectacle?
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