A World that Sings: Critique, Protest and Resonance

Abstract

Protests are events where the world stops; acceleration is suspended, making resonance possible. During protests, reality loses its necessary and incontestable character allowing the enunciation of critiques. Although they derive from different theoretical traditions, both concepts, critique and resonance, place art at the centre of their proposal; therefore, they enable to explore the relationship between art, protest, and transformation. Hartmut Rosa conceives art as an essential sphere of resonance in modernity, and Luc Boltanski highlights artistic critique as one of the main critiques of capitalism. Whereas the notion of critique allows us to understand how actors can question the necessity of reality, resonance enables us to explore the constitution of a relationship in which the subject and the world are mutually transformed.