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Brigitte Bargetz
Figuring Ambivalence, Capturing the Political
An Everyday Perspective
The notion of ambivalence currently seems to be an invigorating figure with heuristic potential in political, social, and art theory. It refers to a plurality of possibilities, a paradoxical multiplicity, and a complex relationality. It foregrounds thinking in terms of indeterminacy and incommensurability, as well as in terms of the possible. Ambivalence has been deployed in positive ways, as offering political promise, while, at the same time, being regarded with suspicion.
Keywords: ambiguity; ambivalence; multistable figures; multistability; Lefebvre, Henri; political science; power relations
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Figuring Ambivalence, Capturing the Political
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An Everyday Perspective
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Brigitte Bargetz
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The notion of ambivalence currently seems to be an invigorating figure with heuristic potential in political, social, and art theory. It refers to a plurality of possibilities, a paradoxical multiplicity, and a complex relationality. It foregrounds thinking in terms of indeterminacy and incommensurability, as well as in terms of the possible. Ambivalence has been deployed in positive ways, as offering political promise, while, at the same time, being regarded with suspicion.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
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2014
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ambiguity
ambivalence
multistable figures
multistability
Lefebvre, Henri
political science
power relations
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© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Brigitte Bargetz, ‘Figuring Ambivalence, Capturing the Political: An Everyday Perspective’, in Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 191–214 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_09>
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en-GB
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191
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214
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Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 191–214
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Cite as:
Brigitte Bargetz, ‘Figuring Ambivalence, Capturing the Political: An Everyday Perspective’, in Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 8 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 191–214 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_09>