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In examining the nexus of cultural performance and location,
this study follows the historical vectors this nexus opens up in
order to reveal the struggles of counterhegemonic groups and
the cultural workers that support them against the plutocratic
forces of capital that continue to make bot-like incursions into
the material realm of urban space. By taking these spaces back
at the level of representation and re-enlivening them with sto-
ries and images that look at the same time both backwards and
forwards and that encourage audiences to inform themselves
and take action, these productions offer important impetus
in creating action-oriented alternatives, something that ongo-
ing neoliberal onslaughts continue to encourage us to believe
is impossible. While the overwhelming scale of contemporary
technological development and the ensuing problems and crises
may not have been deliberately designed to induce resignation,
passivity, and despair, those who benefit from the related hy-
perobjects of financialization and climate change must find it
convenient that they do, as demoralization reduces resistance to
their profit-making machinations.
It is in this context that Vienna’s long tradition of resistance
and radicality, which dates back to its time as a Protestant center
in Catholic Habsburgia, deserves to be better known, especially
as it tends to get erased in nationally oriented works like Fid-
dler’s that take Austria and not Vienna as their focus. One sees
the difference by comparing Fiddler’s claims that “Austria […]
has but a slim track record in protest movements or civic un-
rest” (29), and “Austria is not known as a country of protest or
strife” (ibid., 30), with the opening of the “Prolo Chic” section
of Wiener Chic:
Class and political conflict have been a staple of modern Vi-
ennese history, from the imperial army retaking the city in
edge about the affair or any political matters from that era, such as the
Watergate coverup.
Siting Futurity
The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
- Titel
- Siting Futurity
- Untertitel
- The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
- Autor
- Susan Ingram
- Verlag
- punctumbooks
- Ort
- New York
- Datum
- 2021
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-953035-48-6
- Abmessungen
- 12.6 x 20.2 cm
- Seiten
- 224
- Schlagwörter
- activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
- Kategorie
- Geographie, Land und Leute
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface 11
- Introduction 19
- 1. (Re)Forming Vienna’s Culture of Resistance: The Proletenpassions @ #Arena 39
- 2. Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring 57
- 3. Lazarus’s Necropolitical Afterlife at Vienna’s #Volkstheater 81
- 4. Hardly Homemad(e): #Schlingensief’s Container 101
- 5. From Grand Hotels to Tiny Treasures: Wes Anderson and the Ruin Porn Worlds of Yesterday 119
- 6. Capitalism, Schizophrenia, and #Vanlife: The Alpine Edukation of Hans Weingarter 143
- 7. #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World 161
- Bibliography 189
- Filmography 215