In different historical and fictional contexts, I discovered that the figure of a rebel has gained a negative connotation throughout last decades. Yet I believe that we need to rehabilitate it. There is a certain creative and positive energy in rebellion faith in a possibility of a better life. “The pursuit of individual happiness has been recognized as a universal right. However, existing social conditions make the individual helpless. He saw a contradiction between what he is and what he would like to be. Either he becomes fully aware of this contradiction and the causes and thus joins the political struggle; or else he lives, continually subject to a desire, which, aggravated by his feeling of helplessness, dissolves in recurring daily dreams” observes Stephen Duncombe. Political struggle can be a lot of things. Dancing for example. Though “day dreaming” – distopias, cyberpunk theories and fictions that deal with possible future visions are also part of the research.
