Choreographing Agonism av Goran Petrovic-Lotina

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<p>In<i> Choreographing Agonism</i>, author Goran Petrovic Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance. Exploring the political and philosophical roots of a number of recent leftist civil movements, Petrovic Lotina forcefully argues for a re-imagining of artistic performance as an instrument of democracy capable of contesting a dominant politics.</p><p>Inspired by post-Marxist theories of discourse theory, hegemony, conflict, and pluralism, and using tension as a guiding philosophical, political, and artistic force, the book expands the politico-philosophical debate on theories of performance. It offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which artistic performance can be viewed politically as ''agonistic choreo-political practice,'' a powerful strategy for mobilising alternative ways of living together and invigorating democracy.</p><p><i>Choreographing Agonism</i> makes a bo