WHY ONLY ART CAN SAVE US

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, W. Benjamin, and G. Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of po litics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, b ut the ones that political realism stops us from recognizing as emergencies, from widespread surveillance to climate change to the s ystemic shocks of neoliberalism. We need a way of disrupting the existing order that can energize radical democratic action rather t han rein...[Leer más]