[antiwar-van] Protest Genres and the Pragmatics of Dissent

[Carole Karkhairan]

>Protest Genres and the Pragmatics of Dissent
>A Talk by Roger Farr
>Sunday May 26 at 2pm FREE
>at the Kootenay School of Writing
>201 - 505 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
>604-688-6001
>
>
>"Like all speech-acts, protest and opposition often fall into 
>recognizable genres: the leaflet, the march, the strike, the sit-in,
>the blockade, etc. As interlocutors in these speech-acts, the 
>authorities rely heavily on anticipation and predictability in order
>to understand, describe, control,and diffuse our actions. Therefore, 
>we need to anticipate this anticipation;we need to identify the
>predictable conventions of the protest genres, and re-introduce 
>elements of shock, surprise, and misrecognition. We need to make
>dissent unreadable."
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