Manifestos as Exercises of Hope & Care
Roberto Rocco de Campos Pereira (TU Delft - Spatial Planning and Strategy)
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Abstract
In her book “Doppelgänger: A Trip into the Mirror World,” Naomi Klein (2023) writes about the forces that have destabilised her personal world and which are “part of a much larger web of forces that are destabilising our shared world”. Klein talks about the disagreements she sees in a “mirror world” of distortions. These disagreements are not about a shared reality but about the very nature of reality. What is real? In recent years, our world has been savaged by fake news and “alternative facts,” science denialism, and a profound and seemingly irreversible scepticism towards politics that have destabilised us all. But where does this “war on reality” come from? What has led us to seek our own private unique realities, giving up on broad collective endeavours and visions and, ultimately, giving up on politics? Why has public discourse become so dark? [...]
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