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This study of the link between theory and politics in the poetic practice of Christophe Hanna, Nathalie Quintane and Jean-Marie Gleize, offers historical, cultural, literary and philosophical contexts to their most recent works. The article considers the interest of these three writers for 19th century revolutionary socialism and anarcho-syndicalism, as well as the ways in which the figures of Auguste Blanqui and Émile Pouget informs their understanding of early 21st century France. It takes into consideration the social unrest and governmental repression, the symbolism of the Tarnac affair, the treatment of zadistes, refugees, and of those who threaten the status quo. Moreover, this article suggests ways of interpreting their poetic practice through the philosophies of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as through the works of William Burroughs. This study shows that modes of literary resistance to the "control society" is possible.

This article discusses ways of framing Locative Media through critical theories of new media, particularly Giles Deleuze's "control society hypothesis" and Bruno Latour's "parliament of things". It considers artistic practices that combine data visualization and location-awareness in order to represent public space. If Locative Media largely reworked the Situationist practice of psychogeography, in which the city was the primary site of contestation, the article looks at practices which contest ideas about Nature, in order to create "structures of participation" to address a "crisis in political agency" (Jeremijenko). The conclusion shifts Latour's discourse on networks of non-human agency to the cognitive level in order to consider the potential impact of ubiquitous technology in terms of being.

[Rersumen] Este artículo gira en torno al concepto de miedo-ambiente, que definimos como el producto histórico generado por el acondicionamiento material y discursivo del espacio urbano. En perspectiva historiográfica y con metodología cualitativa atenderemos a las condiciones de su gobernabilidad y a las formas de su resistencia. Primero rastrearemos el origen del miedo urbano, expandido por las capitales europeas durante el siglo XIX al ritmo de un urbanismo disciplinario en desarrollo. A continuación atenderemos al miedo-ambiente contemporáneo, asentado en la sociedad de control y plasmado en el gobierno, diseño y planificación de ciudades. Por último, acercándonos al polo de las resistencias y atendiendo a los nuevos movimientos globales, leeremos el 15M o el movimiento de los Indignados como un intento de reacondicionamiento del medio urbano, que en su vertiente material y discursiva enfrentó el miedo para repensar la democracia. ; [Abstract] This paper explores the concept of ambient-fear, which we define as the historical product generated by the material and discursive conditioning of urban space. In historiographical perspective and with a qualitative methodology we will attend to the conditions of his governance and to the forms of his resistance. First, we will track the origin of urban fear, expanded around European capitals during the 19th century to the rhythm of a developing disciplinary urbanism. Next, we will describe contemporary ambient-fear, settled in the control society and reflected in government, design and urban planning. Finally, approaching the pole of resistances and regarding the new global movements we will interpret the 15M or Indignados Movement as an attempt of reconditioning urban scape, that both in its material aspect as in its discursive side faced fear to rethink democracy.