Kalantzis, K. – To Archeio https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:14:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 Introduction—Uncertain Visions: Crisis, Ambiguity, and Visual Culture in Greece https://toarcheio.org/items/introduction-uncertain-visions-crisis-ambiguity-and-visual-culture-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:41 +0000 http://arc.local/items/introduction-uncertain-visions-crisis-ambiguity-and-visual-culture-in-greece/ Proxy Brigands and Tourists: Visualizing the Greek-German Front in the Debt Crisis https://toarcheio.org/items/proxy-brigands-and-tourists-visualizing-the-greek-german-front-in-the-debt-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:41 +0000 http://arc.local/items/proxy-brigands-and-tourists-visualizing-the-greek-german-front-in-the-debt-crisis/ Continued]]> This article explores Greek social imagination and daily experiences during the debt crisis particularly in relation to Germany, which is increasingly the object of public suspicion with reference to its role in Greece’s bailout program. The essay investigates the prevailing Greek fantasy of nativism and the role of the visual in its constitution and conception during a period characterized by anxiety over national sovereignty. Furthermore, the article explores Greek‐German social relations in western highland Crete, which lies at the intersection of cultural investments, as an archetype of the native. The essay especially focuses on photography and other material practices in unraveling the complexities, circularities, and ambivalences in the relationship between Cretans and German tourists and between Greek national imagination and German cultural representations.

]]> Crete as Warriorhood: Visual Explorations of Social Imaginaries in ‘Crisis’ https://toarcheio.org/items/crete-as-warriorhood-visual-explorations-of-social-imaginaries-in-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:13 +0000 http://arc.local/items/crete-as-warriorhood-visual-explorations-of-social-imaginaries-in-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper explores contemporary Greek political praxis and social imagination through the study of Crete’s position in engagements with the “crisis”. The essay employs the visual as an object and a method of analysis and examines a series of social spheres ranging from public protesting to televisual representation. The paper explores the cultural productivity of notions of native resistance in the current context as well as Cretan responses to the use of traditionalist idioms within the “crisis”.

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