BOOKS - Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban Walls
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Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban Walls
Author: Michael Tsangaris
Year: November 8, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 35 MB
Language: English
Year: November 8, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 35 MB
Language: English
Radical Communications explores unauthorized messages we see in the cities we live in and their impact on the construction of social reality. Michael Tsangaris treats the city as a text and examines the political slogans, graffiti, and street art of Athens as complex visual signs in an alternative communication system. He argues that the legitimacy, aesthetic value, and social acceptability of these expressions depend on the time, place, and social group or individual that interprets them. Finally, his analysis reveals the contradictory character of the contemporary city. It shows a city of social inequalities, cultural diversity, multinational encounters; of conflicts between age groups and political, economic, and epidemic crises; a city of one-dimensional thinking, apathy, and consumer fetishism but also a city that aspires to the dream of a better society and holds utopian promise.
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