Abstract
The “revolution” has been one of the key words in social and political thinking of the last two centuries. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the closure of the era of political utopias (for many, the point of reference would be 1968 in Paris or in Prague), the word seemed to have vanished entirely from the current vocabulary. However, nowadays we are witnessing the return of the idea of Revolution to the political scene, to the media discourse, to social theory and to art. During the last few years, protest movements have became global and turned to be the real “festivals of resistance”, and this has been perceived as a symptom of the new “revolutionary situation”. The attempts of theoreticians (mostly of the post-Marxist thought) to critically revise the past experience vis-à-vis new political realities seem to be seriously retarded in comparison with the “revolutionary practice”. Passing over to the political scenarios for the future development of the situation, I will focus on the convergence of theoretical discourses on revolution, the new forms of political actionism (“Occupy!” movement, flash-mobs, silent protests, etc.) and the contemporary aesthetic praxis. The history of modern art and cinema has provided a rich iconography of the Revolution as an Event (from Delacrois to Eisenstein and further); however, contemporary art (public art first of all), together with political actionism, tends to follow an entirely different strategy which consists in the circumspect resistance to the logic of representation and is based on the concept of revolution as a perpetual nomadic movement, “becoming”, and evasion.
Highlights
Passing over to the political scenarios for the future development of the situation, I will focus on the convergence of theoretical discourses on revolution, the new forms of political actionism (“Occupy!” movement, flash-mobs, silent protests, etc.) and the contemporary aesthetic praxis
The history of modern art and cinema has provided a rich iconography of the Revolution as an Event; contemporary art, together with political actionism, tends to follow an entirely different strategy which consists in the circumspect resistance to the logic of representation and is based on the concept of revolution as a perpetual nomadic movement, “becoming”, and evasion
The history of modern art and cinema has provided a rich iconography of the Revolution as an Event (from Delacrois to Eisenstein and further); contemporary art (public art first of all), together with political actionism, tends to follow an entirely different strategy which consists in the circumspect resistance to the logic of representation and is based on the concept of revolution as a perpetual nomadic movement, “becoming”, and evasion
Summary
Kaip žodis „revoliucija“ iš politinės nebūties sugrįžo į politinį diskursą ir medijas, nors politinių utopijų epocha, atrodytų, seniai pasibaigė. Kodėl terminas „revoliucija“ sulaukė tokio populiarumo ir įsitvirtino šiuolaikiniame politiniame žodyne – juk būtent protestų judėjimo globalumą daugelis supranta kaip gilios kapitalizmo, šiandien įkūnijančio „Sistemą“, krizės simptomą, ir sugriauti šią sistemą gali tik viso pasaulio revoliucija (su sąlyga, kad „visų šalių proletarai“ pagaliau susivienys[8], kitaip kalbėti apie sistemos griovimą nėra prasmės). Kažką panašaus galime matyti ir šiandien, tačiau šiuolaikinis meno ir protestų judėjimo suartėjimas vyksta vadovaujantis, mano manymu, dabar aktualia revoliucijos samprata – revoliucija ne kaip socialinis politinis visuomenės pertvarkymo projektas ir bandymas sugriauti Sistemą, o kaip nuolatinis nomadinis pasipriešinimo judėjimas. Todėl meno ir revoliucinio veiksmo agentų sąjunga suvokiama kaip kažkas laikino ir nepastovaus, tačiau galbūt (jei palaikome permanentinės molekulinės revoliucijos būtinumo tezę) ši sąjunga gali būti kur kas tvirtesnė ar net pastovi. Kad šiandien ir politinis akcionizmas, ir socialus kritinis menas pasmerkti „revoliucijos stichijai“ – nenutrūkstamam, nomadiniam judėjimui ieškant alternatyvių kolektyvinio, eksteritorialaus buvimo modelių, nepriklausančių nei valstybei ir jos valdžios aparatui, nei kapitalizmui
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