A Bitter Victory
Anti-fascist Cultures, Institutions of the Common, and Weak Resistance in Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12225201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewa Majewska (0000-0003-2653-1339, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 397-413 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-8822 • E-ISSN: 1475-5297 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09528822.2019.1626140 |
| OpenAlex | W2965602823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The article begins with the observation that, as regards an anti-fascist sentiment in Poland today, the left appears mainly to have won one battle – in the terrain of culture – whereas ultra-conservative forces dominate public and political life. The analysis proceeds to consider the shift towards a leftist practice in terms of resistance to the widespread precarity of art workers, found to be closely connected with fighting growing fascist tendencies in the socio-political realm. Noting the potential of transversal practices (Felix Guattari) encountered on the institutional and grassroots levels, and sometimes developing through alliances, the argument sees such practices enacting vibrant counterpublics, especially when located within a partial, at least, move towards institutions of the common (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Gerald Raunig). Such institutions operate across lines of solidarity, favouring collaborative work and initiatives that embrace the ordinary, everyday, mundane needs of the subjects they engage, constituting a weak form of resistance but one replete with affect. The analysis also however considers how works of art may be traversed by relations of power that repeat the fascist license to cruelty, indicating therefore that art is not immanently tied to either progressive politics or anti-fascism. The article concludes by proposing a departure from top-down, ‘heroic’ enactments of anti-fascism in the artworld and the nurturing of practices that foster wider public participation in the co-production of culture
Aesthetics · Art · Grassroots · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Precarity · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |