Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How
will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula,
"progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it
has owed its political life? Socialism plus computer technology,
citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary
commitment to practices that are socially experimental and
inclusive of difference-these are new forces being mobilized to
make another future possible. Revolution Today celebrates the new
political subjects that are organizing thousands of grass roots
movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism,
and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The
twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular
mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of
opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and
developing a global consciousness in the process. They are
themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across
language, religion, ethnicity, gender, and every other difference.
Trans-local solidarities exist. They came first. The right-wing
authoritarianism and anti-immigrant upsurge that has followed is a
reaction against the amazing visual power of millions of citizens
occupying public space in defiance of state power. We cannot know
how to act politically without seeing others act. This book
provides photographic evidence of that fact, while making us aware
of how much of the new revolutionary vernacular we already share.
Susan Buck-Morss is distinguished professor of political philosophy
at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Her work crosses disciplines,
including art history, architecture, comparative literature,
cultural studies, German studies, philosophy, history, and visual
culture.
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