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There is no Unhappy Revolution. Spectacle, Situation, Destitution (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Lorenzo Mizzau

Inhalt: More than a century after the October Revolution, after the declaration of the end of ideologies in globalized capitalism, what sense can there still be in talking about revolution? In the neoliberal age of 'there is no alternative', should we perhaps regard any revolutionary perspective as a mere illusion? Does not every revolution end up restoring the hierarchical and repressive power order that it had claimed to demolish? The hypothesis that, through the most heterodox texts of twentieth-century Marxism and anarchism (including those of Walter Benjamin, Gustav Landauer, Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, etc.), we will explore in the course of this seminar is that the very concept of revolution, today, needs to be radically redefined. To do so, we will focus above all on the theoretical and political-strategic texts produced, in the 1950s and 1960s, by the revolutionary, philosophical and artistic movement of the Situationist International. In those texts, in fact, is contained one of the most radical political proposals put forward by the avant-gardes and movements of the second half of the 20th century: understanding and practicing revolution from 'everyday life'.