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the group foregrounds a critical, discursive activist relationship to the res publica
in the conception and organization of its projects. To do so it translates
its intellectual ideals into a series of programmatic activities, broadening its
network among neighborhood associations in order to organize and harness
those aspirations operative in the Weld of power. Third, the Weld of its actions
and techniques of dissemination, production, and media are carefully fused
as part of the social production of the public sphere. And fourth is its deWnition
of its relationship to the public sphere in the manner that Antonio
Gramsci deWned the role of the intellectual in the context of culture. For Le
Groupe Amos this is principally formulated on the ethics of self-governance.
Here the work of the intellectual is both in the activity of particular forms of
praxis and in the functions that require a certain minimum intellectual dispensation
“within the general complex of social relations.” 31 In the Weld of
social relations in which Le Groupe Amos has positioned its work, the targets
of its actions are the state and those institutions and organizations—the
church (especially the Catholic church), political parties, rebel movements,
multinational global institutions linked to powerful economic interests—
FIGURE 8.5. Le Groupe Amos, Campagne éducation à la démocratie, performed by Theatre Mama
OFEDICO (Women’s Organization for Development, Integration, and Community), video still, n.d.