When 'political demand' meets 'video-politics'. (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tie, W
• Is Part Of: Kōtuitui. Volume 11:Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 104
• Page End: 115
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Dialectic of appearances -- labour of the negative -- mass state surveillance -- political demand -- the Event -- video politics; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- New Zealand -- Periodicals; New Zealand periodicals; New Zealand periodicals; Social sciences; New Zealand; Periodicals; 300.99305
• DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2015.1132748
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1177-083X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The emergence of a 'macro-personification of politics' within the political field of Aotearoa New Zealand alters the manner by which political demand needs to now operate if it is to succeed as a form of tactical strategy in political activism. A particular analytical initiative is identified as being central to success under these conditions, whereby given political demands enlarge from a 'state of singularity' to become 'complex discursive demands'. Key to that initiative is the 'dialectic of appearances' and the 'labour of the negative' associated with the ideas-work of Hegel. This article identifies how this dynamic was playing out within a key event in the anti-surveillance movement of 2013, the August public rally in the Auckland Town Hall.