The Art of Resistance

Book presentation & panel discussion

The art of resistance

From Marx to Kafka, from Orwell to Butler

In the face of a world that threatens to sink into tyranny and new authoritarianism, the art of the hour is resistance. It is a matter of defying the temptation to dissolve a complex world into ridiculous unambiguities and avoiding the trap of excessive moderation.

Radical in ambition, sensible in style and tone, winning and people-focussed - these are the guiding principles that run like a golden thread through Robert Misik's award-winning essays.

With verve, the author puts himself between all the stools. Misik opposes the »destruction of reason« by the new fascism and at the same time takes aim at some of the craziness of today's left. He describes the political devastation of our time with cultural depth, just as he exposes the political radicalism of artists such as Annie Ernaux, Franz Kafka, Pier Paolo Pasolini or George Orwell for our time.

Zeynep Buyraç, Actress, member of the Burgtheater ensemble and chairwoman of SOS Mitmensch

Jens Kastner, Sociologist and art historian and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Robert Misik, Author and journalist

Moderation: tba