Page - 80 - in Siting Futurity - The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna

80 siting futurity [In the play between demographic and socio-economic de- velopment of the Brunnenviertel, top-down and bottom-up interventions as well as political and public discourse have been able to help a mutually strengthening dynamic to de- velop. This development leads to a change in the area’s image, whereby migrational cultures are perceived as a positive as- pect of urban development and an identity-changing factor, and the Brunnenviertel experiences a new positioning in, as well as serves as a factor in changing the identity of, the over- all urban fabric.] (Antalovsky and et al 2008, 39). To match the district’s new positioning, Planet Ottakring de- serves recognition for the way it re-enlivens the district’s pro- letarian past and offers an important counterbalance to the identity-producing discourses of the culture-clash comedies. A particularly vibrant strand of the city’s “feel good” cultural pro- duction, it shows how history continues to resonate, to matter, in Vienna.