Expressivism and Resistance: Graffiti as an Infrapolitical Form of Protest against the War on Terror

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As a form of infrapolitics, protest graffiti achieve covert victories when they touch the conscience of receptive viewers with their idiosyncratic oppositional meanings. In the final analysis, taking protest graffiti seriously makes it necessary to focus on the interplay between the cultural and political dimensions of dynamics of social protest, and thus points to the problematic gray zone between individual discontent and collective action.