The Enigma of Revolt:
The Enigma of Revolt:
Militant Politics in a ‘Post-Political’ Age
Is the city still the indispensable arena of any collective uprising? How to reassert the shapeless, formless, and boundless metropolis as a theoretical object and political object of progressive struggle? If the arena of politics no longer has a discernible form, what would be the form of that politics? What, exactly, is an urban politics today? What is the relationship between centrality and political encounter? Has “affinity” politics replaced class as the pivot of militant street encounter? This chapter rethinks the politics of protest in a “post-political” age of new digital media, while working through “the urban question” in the light of the recent “Occupy”.
Keywords: Post-political, Urban question, Encounter, Revolt, Occupy
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