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Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics,
which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is
difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with
the democratic requirement of active and informed agency.
Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle
and political agency using the ideas and practices of Guy Debord
and the Situationist International as a point of departure. Drawing
on radical democratic theory and examining case studies such as the
2011 Occupy movement, Devin Penner concludes that spectacle can and
should be used to mobilize the public for egalitarian purposes.
Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics,
which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is
difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with
the democratic requirement of active and informed agency.
Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle
and political agency using the ideas and practices of Guy Debord
and the Situationist International as a point of departure. Drawing
on radical democratic theory and examining case studies such as the
2011 Occupy movement, Devin Penner concludes that spectacle can and
should be used to mobilize the public for egalitarian purposes.
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political
thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic
thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius
Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Ranciere, Etienne Balibar, and
Miguel Abensour. The essays in this collection connect these
writers through their shared contribution to the idea that division
and difference in politics can be perceived as productive,
creative, and fundamentally democratic. The questions they raise
regarding equality and emancipation in a democratic society will be
of interest to those studying social and political thought or
democratic activist movements like the Occupy movements and Idle No
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