Kristin Ross
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life
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Kristin Ross' volume explores the question of the everyday across various discourses, practices, and knowledges, emphasizing its potential for social transformation. It begins with Henri Lefebvre's notion of the everyday as a site of alienation and emancipatory initiatives, moves to cultural representations of lived reality, and concludes with ecological occupations as a source of oppositional resources and social creativity.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
The text in this volume represents Kristin Ross's ambitious endeavor to explore the question of the everyday across a diverse array of discourses, practices, and knowledge domains, spanning from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, and even encompassing the forms taken by collective political action in the territorial struggles of our contemporary world. If everyday life is indeed recognized as the ideal vantage point for analyzing the social, it also serves as the vital initial step toward its transformation.
The volume commences with a thoughtful revisit to Henri Lefebvre's groundbreaking endeavor to perceive the everyday as a complex amalgamation of residual and resource elements, simultaneously representing profound alienation and serving as the fertile ground from which all emancipatory initiatives and desires take root. The second section delves into our attempts to represent our lived reality to ourselves through cultural forms, encompassing a wide range of artistic expressions such as painting, literature, film, and an analysis of the contemporary transformations within the sub-genre most deeply entrenched in the profound superficiality of everyday life: detective fiction.
The concluding section of the volume turns its attention to present-day ecological occupations in the aftermath of the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, recognizing the everyday as a rich source of oppositional resources and inherent social creativity. By examining these diverse perspectives, the text underscores the profound significance of the everyday in shaping our understanding of the world and catalyzing transformative actions toward a more just and sustainable future.
Weight: 294g
Dimension: 140 x 211 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839768316
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