The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life (Paperback)

Kristin Ross

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The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by collective political action in the territorial struggles of today. If everyday life is, as many have come to believe, the ideal vantage point for an analysis of the social, it is also the crucial first step in its transformation. The volume opens with a return to Henri Lefebvre's powerful attempt to think the everyday as both residue and resource, as the site of profound alienation and-by the same token-the site where all emancipatory initiatives and desires begin. The second section focuses on our attempts to represent our lived reality to ourselves in cultural forms, from painting and literature and film to an analysis of the contemporary transformations of the sub-genre most embedded in the deep superficiality of everyday life: detective fiction. The final section turns to present-day ecological occupations in the wake of the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, and locates the everyday as a site for rich oppositional resources and immanent social creativity.

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Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Kristin Ross
Dimensions:	210 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-83976-831-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	1-83976-831-2
Barcode:	9781839768316