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Subversive Affirmation
Translated by Brian Alkire
Softcover, 304 pages
Date of publication: 16.01.2026
Since the 1960s, theory, the arts and political activism have increasingly rejected as insufficient the common form of “resistance by saying no”. Doesn’t a critique based on negation make itself dependent on the very system it wants to overcome? Does it not remain trapped in a thinking of oppositions?
The formulation of concepts like “subversive affirmation,” “negative affirmation”, “sham affirmation”, “affirmative overcoding”, “hyperaffirmation”, “overidentification”, “paradoxical intervention”, “symptom prescription”, “revolution of the yes”, “affirmative sabotage” and “counter-mimicry” have aimed from very different angles to develop an affirmative critique that overcomes this negation while also making us aware of the difference between conscious consent and conformity, capitulation, indifference or pragmatism.
In her new book, Sylvia Sasse explores and analyzes subversive affirmation as a critical practice in different political systems. She examines the effectiveness of such criticism and its relevance at a time when various political actors have begun appropriating subversive affirmation and no longer using it as a method of criticism.
Sylvia Sasse
is a professor of Slavic studies at the University of Zurich and co-founder of the ZKK (Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory), member of ZGW (Center "History of Knowledge"), and co-editor of "Geschichte der Gegenwart" (www.geschichtedergegenwart.ch).
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1988. Matthew Barney. Selbstbehinderung OPEN
ACCESSIn: Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Improvisation und Invention
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1915. Nikolaj Evreinovs Theatertherapie. Heilung durch Improvisation
In: Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Improvisation und Invention
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1834. Maximilian Langenschwarz und die Kunst, sich selber Steine in den Weg zu legen
In: Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Improvisation und Invention
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1832. Improvisation versus Dichtung. Odoevskij und Puškin
In: Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Improvisation und Invention
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Den Staat an seine Gesetze erinnern. Dissidenz als Wissen vom Recht
In: Monika Dommann (ed.), Kijan Malte Espahangizi (ed.), Svenja Goltermann (ed.), Nach Feierabend 2015
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Vorwort
In: Inke Arns (ed.), Igor Chubarov (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Nikolaj Evreinov: »Sturm auf den Winterpalast«
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»Geschichte wird mit dem Objektiv geschrieben«. Wie das Foto vom theatralen Sturm zum historischen Dokument wird
In: Inke Arns (ed.), Igor Chubarov (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Nikolaj Evreinov: »Sturm auf den Winterpalast«
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Foreword
In: Inke Arns (ed.), Igor Chubarov (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Nikolai Evreinov: »The Storming of the Winter Palace«
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“History is Written with the Lens”: How the Photo of the Theatrical Storming becomes a Historical Document
In: Inke Arns (ed.), Igor Chubarov (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Nikolai Evreinov: »The Storming of the Winter Palace«
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Einleitung
In: Dieter Mersch (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Ästhetische Theorie
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Der theoretische Akt
In: Dieter Mersch (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Ästhetische Theorie
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Introduction
In: Dieter Mersch (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Aesthetic Theory
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The Theoretical Act
In: Dieter Mersch (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Aesthetic Theory
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Michail M. Bachtin: »Литературоведение как наиболее свободная (почти карнавальная) область исследования«
In: Thomas Fries (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Revolutionen der Literaturwissenschaft 1966–1971
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Julia Kristeva: »[L]a seule manière qu’a l’écrivain de participer à l’histoire devient alors la transgression […] par une écriture-lecture.«
In: Thomas Fries (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.), Revolutionen der Literaturwissenschaft 1966–1971