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Walter Benjamin ✆ Cornelie Statius |
Prompted by
the bankruptcy of social democracy and a general suspicion of centralized
control, this shift has been accompanied by a celebration of people’s spontaneity.
In response, some commentators have re-asserted the continued centrality of the
state, as well as the limits of spontaneous resistance.2 But what does
spontaneity mean? When we celebrate spontaneity and espouse suspicion toward
centralized co-ordination, what are we celebrating? Conversely, when we point
out the insufficiency of