Performance, activism and public sphere: Archive, repertoire and reperformance in the new new social movements

Abstract

Reenactment (or re-performance) is a useful political category to consider the various forms of protest and even the logics of the hashtag as the re-appropriation of a full public life. These text pretend to reflects on the forms of digital sociability as political action. Aside from constituting fast media for the circulation of information and opinions, crucial in mobilizing public protests, social networks are also tools for political activism that resort to different forms of performativity.