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this embryonic political potential is whether, in light of the de-
velopment of new technologies and the ensuing bastardization
of democratic principles, the Chinese middle classes, or for that
matter the middle classes in the us and elsewhere, remain in
a position to act like citizens and to reflect on, and act on, the
prioritizing of any kind of greater good.
What Hallstatt and its cloning encourage us to reflect on is
how much has changed since America was a rising nation keen
on establishing the hegemony of its dream, and how best to deal
with the rise of China. In an interview with NPR, Chinese novel-
ist Yan Lianke, who has been both celebrated but also had some
of his works banned in China, elucidates the challenges in terms
of simulacra:
[B]asically in China’s reality today, the real is unreal. All of us
who are living in China today basically exist in a kind of fan-
tasy already — in a kind of elusive reality. Our everyday life is
already filled with both a kind of fantasy of the future, a kind
of denial of the present. We really don’t have a full grasp on
what might be happening or what might not be happening to
us in everyday life. So when I write my seemingly fantastical
novels like Explosion Chronicles or The Day the Sun Died, I’m
really trying to write a kind of reality that people are not fac-
ing and people are not seeing, but in fact exists. (Lianke 2019)
When asked about the state of anxiety he feels, he replied:
Yes, I certainly feel a great deal [of] anxiety and unease and
maybe perhaps even the sense of danger. I feel it day after
day. But I wouldn’t say it’s based on any specific incident or
set of reasons, and in that I’m not alone. I think people in
China all feel this way. Intellectuals feel this way. But every-
day life is a sense of constant anxiety, constant unease — you
don’t know where the danger is coming from. The danger
could be the curbing of free speech, but the danger could also
be in poisoned or contaminated vegetables. It could be in a
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