of counterpublics' transformation into social movements endowed with “poetic” agency.
Engendering “poetic agency,” for a counterpublic and for a social movement alike, denotes
being able to bring forth change in the world and being able to generate change in a
creative,“poetic” way. In this sense, poetic assumes a connotation that opposes the
Habermasian perspective of a public sphere in which only a rational-critical discourse can …