Patrick DeDauw
Patrick DeDauw is a doctoral candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation focuses on a comparative synthesis of the tradition of Power Structure Analysis developed in labor and community-based organizations, and methodologies from critical geographic research tracking the development of regional historic blocs. Patrick holds an MA in Political Economy and Sociology from Freie Universität–Berlin and a BA in Cultural Studies from McGill University, and he has taught at Queens College and FU–Berlin. He has also worked as an editor and translator for academic publications and projects in popular education.
Collected Work
“Front Lines: Peter Weiss’s Literature of Revolt”
This review of the English translation of Weiss's modernist epic The Aesthetics of Resistance argues for its relevance for organizers thinking about the current crisis. Experimental and dialectical in form, the novel imagines the conversations of actual figures in the German anti-Nazi underground as they try to figure out what to do at each step in the catastrophe. Staging debates about politics, history, consciousness, works of art, and the functions of writing, the characters grapple with understanding each other’s motivation to act in order to orient themselves to move together politically.
