In the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of
interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal
society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence
felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In "Arts of the
Political: New Openings for the Left," Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift
argue that only by broadening the domain of what is considered
political and what can be made into politics will the Left be able
to respond forcefully to injustice and inequality. In particular,
the Left requires a more imaginative and experimental approach to
the politics of creating a better society. The authors propose
three political arts that they consider crucial to transforming the
Left: boosting invention, leveraging organization, and mobilizing
affect. They maintain that successful Left political movements tend
to surpass traditional notions of politics and open up political
agency to these kinds of considerations. In other words, rather
than providing another blueprint for the future, Amin and Thrift
concentrate their attention on a more modest examination of the
conduct of politics itself and the ways that it can be made more
effective.
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