Journal article

Other Possible Monsters

Pages 189 to 196

Cite this article


  • Szaniecki, B.
(2008). Other Possible Monsters. Multitudes, No 33(2), 189-196. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.033.0189.

  • Szaniecki, Barbara.
« Other Possible Monsters ». Multitudes, 2008/2 No 33, 2008. p.189-196. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2008-2-page-189?lang=en.

  • SZANIECKI, Barbara,
2008. Other Possible Monsters. Multitudes, 2008/2 No 33, p.189-196. DOI : 10.3917/mult.033.0189. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2008-2-page-189?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.033.0189


English

Sao Paulo has in recent years been acquainted with large movements of occupation of buildings in downtown area. Strongly affected by the reduction of the industrialization, the city experiences regularly problems of unemployment and housing. Collective of artists and graphists have joined the movement of”Sem Teto", the Homeless, in order to develop a real media guerrilla whose multiplicity of aesthetic practices have reached a monstruous dimension. This analysis allows us to reflect on the constituent dimension of the productive multitude, through their aesthetic creations against the policies of gentrification in the metropolis. The fight against the Léviathan in the city of São Paulo entails the creation of other possible monsters.

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