Claude Rosental

The Demonstration Society (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Porter, Catherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange. YouTube demos of makeup products by famous influencers, demonstrations of strength during street protests, demonstrations of military might in North Korea: public demonstrations are omnipresent in social life. Yet they are often perceived as isolated events, unworthy of systematic examination. In The Demonstration Society, Claude Rosental explores the underlying dynamics of what he calls a "demonstration society." He shows how, both in today's world and historically, public demonstrations constitute not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but fundamental forms of interaction and exchange, and, in some cases, attempts to lead the world. Rosental compares demos with other forms of public demonstrations, drawing out both their peculiarities and common features. He analyzes the processes through which demonstrations are conceived and carried out, as well as the skills of their producers. He also compares contemporary demos with historical demonstrations including theaters of machines in the Renaissance, public demonstrations of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, and demonstrations of the magic lantern in the nineteenth century. Above and beyond the entertainment they sometimes provide, demonstrations are experienced as intense moments that broadly involve alliances, material and symbolic goods, and, more generally, the future of individuals and collectives. Rosental elucidates the many ways in which we live today, as in the past, in a society of demonstration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262366403
• Artikelnr.: 60921843

Autorenporträt

Claude Rosental is Research Professor of Sociology at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Centre d'Étude des Mouvements Sociaux in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
INTRODUCTION 1
1 A DRAMATURGIC APPROACH TO PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS 19
2 PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS IN ACTION 37
3 PREPARING DEMONSTRATIONS 79
4 CAMPAIGNS AND ARSENALS 105
5 PERFORMANCES WITH LIMITED POWER 133
6 APPRENTICESHIP AND PROFESSIONALISM 167
7 ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURAL GOODS, FORMS OF ART 193
CONCLUSION 227
NOTES 237
REFERENCES 249
INDEX 263