Power Of Presence Intrusion Of The Alternative

Abstract

Thehegemony ofthe ruling thought has always demanded conformity asanessential condition for ^eing able to freely operate in Public Discourse and maintain the status quo. And in doing so, the establishment hasmanufactured and controlled countiy's popular narrative thathasrestructured i^man subjectivity and consolidated its influence, authority and established it presence ofpower, but only to be threatened by local resistances. The thesis aims at exploring how these resistances, dissenting from the official ideology, temporarily emerge in the (^maifToTBTer^ay life^ln spaces that carry the inherent potential ofgenerating disruption. Shaped by awide range ofsocio-political and historical discourses, these places are highly interactive sphere in city's political domain, from where the "threatening" alternative discoui'se se^.'ButtlSe spaces have always been the victim*^ oppression, and tFToseBwelling in them, the target and the thought that emerges out, censored. The idea is intervene ina waylocreatVwTys and means ofdisruption that transgresses the political order aMempowefmenroFalEmafr discourse, in aplac^arceleFratesTen^ourages and empowei*s the" civicpresence thattransmutes their being to their collective power of presence.