TY - JOUR AU - Yuliya Martinavichene PY - 2013/10/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - POSTMODERN SUBJECT AND POLITICAL ACTION JF - Topos JA - topos VL - 0 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - http://journals.ehu.lt/index.php/topos/article/view/339 AB - [In English]Since the downfall of the idea of a unitary subject, discussions of what a postmodern subject is have taken many different turns. However, most of them agree on one particular trait of postmodern subject – it has become the site of an «uncontrollable adventure» (Lefort 1986). All we can safely say about the postmodern subject is paradoxically that we can hardly be certain about what a postmodern subject is (or appears to be). At the same time a subject that is considered nowadays to be heterogeneous, decentered, and detotalized2 has serious implications on both social and political domains. I argue that in a ‘radically new epoch, characterized by drift, dissemination, and by the uncontrollable play of significations’ the characteristics that postmodern subject is usually credited has become the scenario for a new mode of political action. The two politically driven groups – that of Femen and Pussy Riot – appear to be highly symptomatic and can function as an empirical example of the case. ER -