Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds

This book explores an innovative form of creative and communicative politics: the 'performative encounter', as a strategy for facilitating new ways of being, relating and making worlds. Unlike existing scholarship that frames such encounters in artistic or cultural terms, this book analyses performative encounters through an organizational lens to accentuate their social-political potential. Intertwining conceptual and ethnographic research, it uniquely maps out one narrative of the...
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This book explores an innovative form of creative and communicative politics: the 'performative encounter', as a strategy for facilitating new ways of being, relating and making worlds. Unlike existing scholarship that frames such encounters in artistic or cultural terms, this book analyses performative encounters through an organizational lens to accentuate their social-political potential. Intertwining conceptual and ethnographic research, it uniquely maps out one narrative of the encounter, tracing a line through the twentieth century from the Berlin Dadaists, to the Situationist International, to several contemporary German collectives and campaigns, showing how performative encounters intervene in global and local issues such as the privatisation of public space and resources, human mobility and the corporatisation of education.