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The politics and poetics of everyday life / Kristin Ross.

Summary:

"In this incisive political analysis, Kristin Ross thinks through everyday existence across a range of practices-from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction-and across the forms taken by collective political action in contemporary struggles. Ross returns to Henri Lefebvre's powerful intuition that ordinary life is both residue and resource, the site of profound alienation and, by the same token, the origin of all emancipatory initiatives and desires"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781839768316
ISBN: 1839768312
Physical Description: 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: London ; Verso, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Everyday life: theoretical interventions -- Introduction to Yale French Studies "Everyday Life" -- Lefebvre on the situationists: an interview -- The sociologist and the priest -- Introduction to Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster -- Historicizing untimeliness -- Yesterday's critique, today's mythologies -- Democracy for sale -- Part II. Everyday life: cultural interventions -- Shopping: an introduction to Emile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise -- Jacques Tati, historian -- Schoolteachers, maids, and other paranoid histories -- Watching the detectives -- Parisian noir -- Elsewhere as pastiche -- Part III. Everyday life: the commune-form -- The survival of the commune -- The wind from the west -- The internationalism of improbable alliances.