Futile Political Gestures: The Reversible World: the Brazilian election as a method of hope

Maya Mayblin

Oustinova-Stjepanovic asks why ‘we are admonished against assuming futility or succumbing to despair in politics’? The question, to me, is both a welcome critique of the anthropological compunction to read intention, or at the very least, coherence into social life, and an (Aristotelian) plea that we return tragedy and failure to their rightful place inRead more