Piratical Cultural Studies: Transgressive Individualism Reconsidered
Aljoša Pužar
The essay adopts a broadly used trope of piracy/“piracy” to exemplify the possible need for an individualistic and neo-vitalist agenda (along with conventional mutually intolerant “postmarxist-communal” and/or “liberal-pragmatist-policy-oriented” approach) regarding both methodology social mission cultural studies. Relevant regional family history of/ from Croatian/Slovenian/Italian three-border zone is considered, along auto-ethnographic accounts author’s own piratical inspirations transgressions his action research on sexual violence in South Korea. By juxtaposing political personal chronologies literary histories, by situating outbursts transgressive empowerment revolutionary intervention side-by-side tacit interstices disruptions violence, this contribution aims evoke complexity socially engaged
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