‘To Win the Energies of Intoxication for the Revolution’: Body Politics, Community, and Profane Illumination
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This article discusses Walter Benjamin’s essay on Surrealism (1929) and focuses on three key elements any anthropological-materialist concept of politics has to address: (1) a profane illumination of the capitalist everyday life, (2) the problem of political representation, and (3) the interdependency of body politics and the (im)possible community of political acting. This article is a contribution to the ongoing debate on ‘what is anthropological materialism’ after Benjamin.
Source: Anthropology & Materialism
DOI: 10.4000/am.348
Author: Sami Khatib
Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W50437482