Grexodus: Notes for a Non-strategic Strategy - Tapa blanda

Since 2010, Greece is in unprecedented financial crisis and turmoil, due to its public debt. This led to a wave of social unrest, and eventually to the ascension of SYRIZA to power. It was practically the first time when the non-socialist Left formed a government in a European country. These developments generated worldwide interest, and they have been closely watched by both mainstream and alternative media. Their reports convey intense affect: hope, curiosity, fear, enmity, disappointment ... according to who or when is speaking. Thus, a large corpus of relevant texts already exists. These often seem a fruit of projection: people adapt and translate what they see to a pre-existing, familiar vocabulary. This is inevitable; any discourse on politics involves a work of translation, even when it is pronounced in the native language. This book provides its own version, based on a view "from the inside", or from between the inside and the outside, which attempts to approach the political (and the economical -to the extent we can distinguish them) from a point of view of the "materialism of the encounter", without reducing them to moralism, legalism, militarism, or any other essentialism.

Akis Gavriilidis is an independent writer and translator born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1964, and living in Belgium. He has completed a PhD on legal philosophy and a post-doc on political anthropology. He has published 7 books (in Greek). Original and translated texts by him are available in scholarly and political journals and on the Internet.