The Adversary
<p>To oppose is to turn against someone or something (in a fight, in a game, in a discussion, in a trial…), but it is also to distance oneself from a position, from a theory as well as from a practice. The etymology of the adversary therefore implies a logic of confrontation: being turned against, however, paradoxically discloses the constitutive bond of the interaction between antagonists. This crossing of gazes makes conflictual interaction a privileged place for the production of masking, camouflage, but also parades, ostentation, threats, intimidation. The adversary takes shape both by relentlessly pursuing Eden projects, and by allowing immense miseries and shortcomings to thrive, shelving them in an elsewhere, which then returns. It is the (adversative) measure of the difficult search for a balance.</p>
Editors: Sara Marini
Contributors: Sara Marini, Silvia Bodei, Paolo Bosca, Gianpaolo Cacciottolo, Jacopo Cantalini, James Carpenter, Benjamin Chavardés, Lorenzo Ciccarelli, Adheema Davis, Federico Della Sala, Roberto Esposito, Lamia Hadda, Katharina Hövelmann, Jacopo Galli, Carlo Gandolfi, Greg Girard, Philip Goldswain, Kengo Kuma, Fabrizio Marzilli, Marco Mazzeo, Lorenzo Mingardi, Marcos Amado Petroli, Kris Pint, Alberto Pireddu, Michelangelo Pivetta, Jacopo Rasmi, Fabio Salomoni, Francesco Trovò, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Marco Vanucci, Luca Vettori
Assistant Editor: Giorgia Aquilar, Francesco Bergamo, Giulia Bersani, Giovanni Carli, Egidio Cutillo, Giacomo De Caro, Stefano Eger, Francesco Maranelli, Elisa Monaci, Andrea Pastorello, Alberto Petracchin, Francesca Rognoni, Riccardo Segradin, Davide Zaupa, Luca Zilio
Translators: Just!Venice
Graphic Designer: bruno
Università Iuav di Venezia, Quodlibet
Part of: Vesper
ISBN: 978-88-229-1440-8