VIVID [RADICAL] MEMORY

“We have considered necessary to initiate this second delivery of Desacuerdos, by paying attention to the concept of "counterhegemony", first of all because the attempt to permeabilize the political and esthetic discourses in the base of our project. Beyond the success of certain slogans and particular ways of circulation of the ideas inside the mosaic of movements of resistance, Desacuerdos shares – and it is so reflected by the materials that we offer in this number - many of the approaches and questions of those that support discourses of resistance in counterhegemonic terms, as the building up of a new sphere of the public and the political thing within the frame of the global society or the claim of autonomous spaces for the action. This affinity is not non-critic or continues, since it might not be otherwise, considering the nature of Desacuerdos. In fact, the second objective for introducing this theoretical entry in the first pages is to slow down the reading of a few concepts and a few arguments that turn out to be extensively developed in the following texts. "

Óscar García Agustín and Editorial,  Contrahegemonías y desacuerdos, Desacuerdos 2, Barcelona, 2005.