WAKING UP FROM THE NIGHTMARE OF PARTICIPATION

Wake Up from The Nightmare of Participation! This book presents a platform for the development of proactive engagement and aims to fuel an antagonistic debate amongst theorists and practitioners from various fields of knowledge, cultural backgrounds and political positions about the central thesis of Markus Miessen´s recent publication "The Nightmare of Participation – Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality". This book does not look for approval or consensual deliberation, but seeks for an agile examination of a proposed post-consensual (spatial) practice, formulating the necessity to undo the innocence of participation while promoting a conflictual reading of participation as a mode of proactive first person singular engagement: a step towards a state of acting and an individual, propositional practice. None of the contributions were content-edited; no consensual or editorial constraints were imposed onto any of the contributors.