Keller Easterling

In addition to direct, head-to-head political action, there is political instrumentality in indirect techniques or aesthetic regimes that may, after Jacques Rancière and others, generate dissensus rather than resistance.
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In this realm of dissensus one finds an extended repertoire of trouble making and leverage that often includes, not the opposition of tense resistance and competition, but rather gifts, compliance, misdirection/distraction, meaninglessness, comedy, and spatial contagions.