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The starting point for the anthology was the Budapest premiere of Naeem Mohaiemen’s film Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017), curated by Eszter Szakács at tranzit.hu. The book’s title is an homage to Michel Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended (1976). We take up Foucault’s short- lived enthusiasm for the 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution as a case of misrecognition due to judgments formed in the heat of the moment. We start from this event to ask:
Is every action capable of building solidarity, or can it boomerang with challenging allies, ambiguous manifestos, and accelerated timelines?
