“The decade of the Greek 2010s may be understood in two very different ways, both of them based on Leftist views of the explosive December of 2008: Either in terms of a biopolitical crisis whose victims need the government΄s pastoral care or in terms of stasis whose actors contest self-rule agonistically. I will argue that stasis, understood as internal contestation of power, provides an alternative model of institution to the dominant model of crisis according to which Greeks continue to be governed. I will base my discussion on a comparison of the manners in which fiction and poetry have been rendering the crisis and the stasis respectively legible.”
https://www.thepressproject.gr/details_en.php?aid=132996
August 14, 2018