Uta Brandes (Ed):
Fandalismus

German edition only

From Vandalism to Fandalism

edited by Uta Brandes with contributions by Jan Anfang, Uta Brandes, Svenja Brüggemann, Pina Dietsche, Judith Dörrenbächer, Jakob Florczyk, Fionn Krämer, Josef Kril, Michael Marx & Marco Siegl.

If anything in public spaces gets "changed", this is often prematurely labelled as vandalism. The authors of this book have done extensive fi eld research, subjecting the phenomenon of "vandalism" to critical revision. And things have turned out to be quite different than previously assumed, with good and bad being distributed in a surprisingly different way. The critical repossession of public space is not necessarily vandalism but rather "fandalism". This book provokes a re-thinking of issues such as vandalism, political correctness and the mainstream, and in so doing, stirs up in a thoughtful and equally entertaining manner many issues that had seemed to be safely fi led away in their respective
drawers.

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