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Protest trapped in transport-metaphor
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Per Herngren ©
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The protest movement is
trapped in the metaphor of transport. The protesters have special
information, an insight or knowledge, which needs to get
out and then transport itself through some kind of medium
into the consciousness of those in power or the
public. Speakers, leaflets, web pages or actions, are supposed to
transmit the protest message to an audience.
Something is then happening inside the recipient and the
result will be change. Political work, actions, dialogue are
understood as a transportation of information or insights to
somewhere else - instead of ways to live the society one wants. I
would propose more
constructive metaphors like
production, imprint and
tools. And I still think the
resistance metaphor from electricity and biology for
disobedience and obstruction is useful. Displacement might be a
metaphor to connect resistance and constructive work.
Per Herngren |
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