Fear of the community we have become

Antoni Muntadas' project On Translation: Fear It confronts us with what the artist calls "invisible mechanisms." It highlights how these mechanisms serve to politically exploit the media and how those in power use them to control citizens around a specific ideology or discourse.

Television, the internet, and new relations of virtual proximity and distance generate unprecedented social relations, and the meaning of the site is completely transformed. Fear, then, becomes a powerful impulse that leads individuals and groups to cling to a community—whatever its nature.

Despite any controversies, the idea of community is related to the search for belonging in the insecure conditions of modern society. What, then, is the "we" of a community? How do these alliances, however fragile and organic, survive the fear of difference, which is structural and systemic? How is all of this sustained in the public sphere, and what is the role of institutions in allocating resources and methodologies for this plural agency to emerge, for the "we" that is in a constant process of mutation to flourish?

As the world rises up against the clear renewal of the fascism we thought was eradicated, what—if anything—is causing our collective experience to be more just and resilient?