Constellations of Refusal: A Sketch of a Research Program

Refusal is a contradictory act: those who refuse withdraw from a constellation while at the same time remaining related to it. Taking this paradoxical dynamic as its point of departure, the paper develops ten working hypotheses toward a theory, practice, and aesthetics of refusal. Its aim is to sketch avenues for an interdisciplinary research program that investigates the constellations in which actions are understood as refusal and the effects they produce.