This essay e@wpl ores the value of oppositional, perfmtive political action in the context of oppression, domination, and exclusionary political spheres. Rather than adopting lris Marion Young's approach, Drexler turns to Hannah Arendt's theories of political action in mder to emphasize the capacity of political action as action to intervene in and disrupt the constricting, politically devitalizing, necrophilic normalizations of proceduralism and routine, and thus to rem'ent the importance of contestatory action as enabling and enacting creativity, spontaneity, and resistance.
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