Interesting! "I am proposing a radical move to consider pleasure and happiness as an active means of resistance – such pleasurable experiences and happiness around which the subject populations may rally despite the prevalence of occupation, obliterating it through the process of exclusion and ommission. Can happiness and pleasure be subversive? If people were to deploy joyous means of asserting their identity and independence from the occupational state would that add to the repertoire of the possible means of resistance and confound the state? If such practices were to effectively proliferate without degenerating into a meaningless bohemian orgy, would that be like mocking at the limits of power and oppression and thus weaken its stranglehold? If subversive joy cannot replace subversive pain as the chief mode of resistance, can it at least fill in the gap between two tragic events and thus sustain continuous presence? Should resistance subsist on suffering or harness joy?"
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:51:23 +0000
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