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Written by the three editors, the introduction takes stock of the transformations of the public sphere in the wake of globalism and the upsurge of political populism. It reviews the conventional approaches to the interpretation of the public sphere by Habermas and others as well as more recent challenges to the conceptual orthodoxies, for example, by notions of ‘counter-publics’ or ‘agonism.’ The chapter situates the book’s contributions and interviews broadly within a variety of recent anti-hegemonic artistic practices and proposes an amended understanding of intermedial performance in public spaces as allowing a simultaneity of being ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the mediated experience.
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Arfara, K., Mancewicz, A., Remshardt, R. (2018). Introduction: In and Out: Intermedial Practices in the New Public Sphere. In: Arfara, K., Mancewicz, A., Remshardt, R. (eds) Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere. Avant-Gardes in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75343-0_1
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