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The first PSL on Democracy & Dissent took place June 25-July 5, 2017 in the monastery of Paou, near Argalasti.
The lab addressed urgent political developments around the globe both by revisiting classic texts of critical theory and social inquiry and tracing new trajectories of thought and novel modes of cultural critique and cultural production. Against the backdrop of neo-fascist xenophobia and neoliberal austerity, we considered how democracy, so often invoked as an alibi of sovereignty, still holds out a vital promise of hospitality to the other, capable of disrupting multifarious justifications for intolerance, exclusion, dispossession and injury. As we considered emergent practices and potentialities for dissent, we highlighted the constitutive role of technology, culture and aesthetics in the political. Ethnographic and historical case studies from various sites were interwoven with our more theoretical discussions.
The lab addressed urgent political developments around the globe both by revisiting classic texts of critical theory and social inquiry and tracing new trajectories of thought and novel modes of cultural critique and cultural production. Against the backdrop of neo-fascist xenophobia and neoliberal austerity, we considered how democracy, so often invoked as an alibi of sovereignty, still holds out a vital promise of hospitality to the other, capable of disrupting multifarious justifications for intolerance, exclusion, dispossession and injury. As we considered emergent practices and potentialities for dissent, we highlighted the constitutive role of technology, culture and aesthetics in the political. Ethnographic and historical case studies from various sites were interwoven with our more theoretical discussions.
A highlight of the program was a one-day public symposium held in the seaside village of Horto on June 29, followed by an excursion to Trikeri the next day. The cohort engaged in a Democracy Simulation that they presented on July 4, 2017.
The organizing committee for PSL 2017: Penelope Papailias, Ioanna Laliotou, Mitsos Bilalis, Pantelis Probonas.
The organizing committee for PSL 2017: Penelope Papailias, Ioanna Laliotou, Mitsos Bilalis, Pantelis Probonas.
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The following seminars were presented by PSL 2017 faculty:
States of Emergency and Agonistic Politics: Toward a ‘Not Yet’ of Democratic Imagination Athena Athanasiou (Panteio) Disruptive Performances: Fred Moten and the Black Radical Tradition Patricia Dailey (Columbia University) Migrants, Mobilities and Oceanic Crossings Pamila Gupta (University of Witwatersrand) The Commons as an Alternative Paradigm of Collective Life Alexandros Kioupkiolis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Aesthetics in the Political: Antigone as a Stranger in the Polis Elena Tzelepis (University of Athens) Why Do We “Fight for Our Servitude as if it Were our Salvation”? Spinoza and La Boétie on Democracy Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney U) Our 2017 faculty also presented methodological workshops in experimental genres: Expanded Documentary Juan Orrantia (University of Witwatersrand) Machinima as Experimental Ethnographic Medium Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly) |
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