Sylvia Sasse: Subversive Affirmation, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Subversive Affirmation
- Critique of Critique Revisited
- Translation:
- Brian Alkire
- Publisher:
- Diaphanes Verlag, 01/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783035808100
- Item number:
- 12290740
- Volume:
- 304 Pages
- Release date:
- 16.1.2026
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Since the 1960s, theory, the arts and political activism have increasingly rejected as insufficient the common form of "resistance by saying no". Doesn't a critique based on negation make itself dependent on the very system it wants to overcome? Does it not remain trapped in a thinking of oppositions?
The formulation of concepts like "subversive affirmation," "negative affirmation", "sham affirmation", "affirmative overcoding", "hyperaffirmation", "overidentification", "paradoxical intervention", "symptom prescription", "revolution of the yes", "affirmative sabotage" and "counter-mimicry" have aimed from very different angles to develop an affirmative critique that overcomes this negation while also making us aware of the difference between conscious consent and conformity, capitulation, indifference or pragmatism.
In her new book, Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems. She examines the effectiveness of such criticism and its relevance at a time when various political actors have begun appropriating subversive affirmation and no longer using it as a method of criticism.
Biography (Sylvia Sasse)
Sylvia Sasse (Dr. phil.), studierte Slavistik und Germanistik in Konstanz, St. Petersburg und Moskau; derzeit wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Zentrum für Literaturforschung in Berlin mit einem Projekt zur Beicht- und Geständnispraxis in Rußland.Notes:
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