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Collective Horizons: Rethinking the Performative and Political: (Im)Possibilities of Being Together

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Invisible Committee, ‘the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality’ (described by one of the members of the anonymous group), published a text in 2007 that hypothesised the ‘imminent collapse of capitalist culture’ that would arise from new waves of social contestation. Under the title The Coming Insurrection the text (denounced as a manual for terrorism by the French government) functioned as a call to arms during the upheavals of the following years. The introduction concluded with a question that, in this chapter, I would like to suggest still stands as a precondition for political action. This question is: Where do we find each other?

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Argyropoulou, G. (2017). Collective Horizons: Rethinking the Performative and Political: (Im)Possibilities of Being Together. In: Fisher, T., Katsouraki, E. (eds) Performing Antagonism. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95100-0_9

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