POZOR ZMĚNA MÍSTA!:
KVŮLI VYNUCENÉMU ZRUŠENÍ PROGRAMU NA KLINICE SE PŘEDNÁŠKA PŘESOUVÁ DO NEDALEKÉHO ŽIŽKOSTELA. (Náměstí barikád, 1).

Lidová žižkovská univerzita uvádí: 
Riots, Violence and Representations: Athens

The mediated moral panic about urban insurrections (from France, Greece, Spain, etc) is a recent example of the ways insidious representations of violence are at once everyday and ideologically driven. Yet, what escapes representation is the pervasiveness and omnipresence of everyday systemic violence.

Theo is overqualified and under-employed.
John works two jobs but struggles to pay his iphone bill.
Chris is packing dog biscuits for a pound a day in the prison workshop.
Nabil just spent his last £100 on new Nikes.

These are accounts of how everyday violence becomes the status quo. The talk would use examples from Athens, Greece in order to unpack the relationship between crisis, neoliberalism, precarity, and resistance. When do we stop looking the other way? What happens when the hegemonic representations and illusions of a society collapse? What are the spaces of resistance and its representations in the milieu of social uncertainty and crisis?

Myrto Tsilimpounidi is a social researcher and photographer. Her
research focuses on the interface between urbanism, culture, and
innovative methodologies. She is the author of Sociology of Crisis:
Visualising Urban Austerity (Routledge, 2016) and the co-editor of
Remapping Crisis: A Guide to Athens (Zero Books, 2014) and Street Art & Graffiti: Reading, Writing & Representing the City (Ashgate, 2016). Myrto is the co-director of Ministry of Untold Stories and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.