Insights: Marchart portrays "certain youth cultures and subcultures" uniting through a common aesthetic to become actively political. I intend to argue that the aesthetic of groups like hipsters is more readily approximated to "noise" in the process of politicization because it marks the occasion of submission to the "game" of the opposition. However, the function the hipsters may not be as stagnant as I intend to argue.
Bibliography: Marchart, Oliver. "New Protest Formations and Radical Democracy." Peace Review. 16.4 (2004): 415-420. Print. In his article, Marchart argues for the reclassification of “certain youth cultures and subcultures” by “taking into account the macro-political context in which they emerge” (Marchart 416). Marchart posits internal (forum for debate), external (an enemy,e.g., The World bank), and historical (dissolution of traditional horizons for protest groups, e.g., socialism) antagonization as the catalysts for more superficially inclined (protest through style) actors to join with with traditional emancipatory agencies (e.g. labor unions) and coalesce into directly political or “new protest formations” (415). Marchart labels democracy as the current horizon for all political articulation. Because “’democracy’ is not something that is necessarily emancipatory,” Marchart establishes radical democracy as the horizon for new protest formations (419).
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