Son[i]a #173
Gerald Raunig
Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist who lives in Vienna. Drawing on and extending the theories of Foucault, Hardt, Negri, Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari amongst others, his work addresses the history of revolutionary and resistance movements and the role of art and artists in social struggles or, as he puts it, ‘the concatenation of art and revolution’ over the last two centuries.
Raunig’s analysis of machinic capitalism and the link between art and activism, provides a thought-provoking framework for recent examples of what he calls Molecular Strike: from Tahrir Square in Cairo to the 15M civic taskforces in Spain and other post-credit-crunch uprisings, where radical inclusion, the reappropriation of space and time, and the absence of the subject, turned out to be key underlying elements of this globalised movement.
SON[I]A talks to Gerald Raunig about Molecular Revolution, philosophical activism, and the differences and similarities between recent social movements and those of the late nineteen sixties.
Marcelo Expósito
In FONS ÀUDIO #59, artist, writer and activist Marcelo Expósito revisits his work in the MACBA Collection Photowritings 2011-2019 (Dedicated to Allan Sekula), a personal, sometimes intimate look at a series of collective experiences of self-determination and resistance. Marcelo talks about demonstrations, mass events and the occupation of public space, but also about micropolitical space and forms of bonding, empathy and solidarity.
Anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol discuss monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish.
Michael Hardt
Interview with the political philosopher Michael Hardt about what role revolutions have today as spaces for new social creation.