Walking by different districts in Madrid on my way to work I run into several stencils, graffiti, and interventions that focus on the cuts in social budgets and on the labor precarization that have been imposed on the people living in the Spanish state. With the potency inherent to non-authorized cultural production, these pieces make visible what Slavoj Zizek calls systemic or institutionalized violence.
Por Favor and Dos Jotas: Equation. Apodaca, 1 Oct. 2014.
In Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008) Zizek argues that it is in the circulation of capital–in the “self-propelling metaphysical dance of Continue reading