towards poetic activism

SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL

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SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC

francis alÿs

poetic activism promotes provocative and compelling ways of talking and writing, ways that unsettle the common sense, taken for granted realities, and invite others into new dialogic spaces.

poetic activism is based on the appreciation of the power of language to make new and different things possible and important—an appreciation which becomes possible only when one's aim becomes an expanding repertoire of alternative descriptions rather than 'the one right description'.

from language and ecology online magazine

by arran stibbe