Yiannis Mylonas

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at National Research University Higher School of Economics

This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power for the Greek context. In doing so, it embraces intersectional approaches that stu...

The first volume concentrates contributions defined by the key concepts of otherness, reactionary politics, and the class gaze. Departing from the watershed event of the Greek economic crisis and its long-term effects in the Greek socio-political life during the last fifteen years, the contributions of the volume focus on media practices that we fr...

The empirical focus of this study is Season 1 of the popular HBO series The White Lotus (2020) and Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness (2022), both of which achieved worldwide popularity and critical acclaim. The study draws on narrative analysis, to examine class relations and class subjectivities in these productions. Anchored in today’s hig...

In the introduction of the first volume, we referred to main approaches and theories of class. While introducing the second volume, we examine relevant works on contemporary Greece, revising studies concerned with class questions in the country, overviewing the state of the art of the current critical Greek media and cultural studies. Several of th...

In this chapter, class-related aspects in the work of two contemporary “minor” Greek authors/artists, Samson Rakas and Antonis Antonakos, are examined. The study offers critical theoretical reflections on the work of both authors and its situated context. The poetic works studied are produced in the social context of contemporary Greece. They depar...

This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power for the Greek context. In doing so, it embraces intersectional approaches that stu...

This study focuses on contemporary cultural projects dealing with the Greek revolutionary event of the 1940s. Empirically, the study examines a growing corpus of different cultural practices dealing with aspects of the Greek 1940s. These cultural practices are viewed as counter-archives and conceptualized using the notion of the proletarian public...

This article attempts a critical enquiry into contem­porary politics and culture as characterized by a prolonged capitalist crisis and its concomitant economic, social, political, and environmental dimensions. The article highlights the position of the working class today, and its critical potential for a politics of social change, and socialism. C...

In this article we focus on one important event related to the Greek dimensions of the so called refugee crisis in Europe. This event took place during late February and March 2020 and is known as the Evros events that occurred when Turkey decided to open its European borders to the refugees. Greece responded by closing its land borders with Turkey...

This study focuses on contemporary cultural projects dealing with the Greek revolutionary event of the 1940's. Empirically, the study examines a growing corpus of different cultural practices dealing with aspects of the Greek 1940's. These cultural practices are viewed as counter-archives and conceptualized under the proletarian public sphere notio...

This chapter focuses on media practices of shaming, as performed during the early years of the so-called Greek crisis (2009–2015) by the news media of Germany, Denmark and Greece. The chapter shows that the hegemonic publicity around the ‘Greek crisis’ cumulated into a public shaming practice of the Greek people, ridiculed by media spectacles of cr...

This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content...

This article focuses on New Democracy (ND), Greece's main conservative party, and its return to power in 2019. The study enquires into ND's hegemonic strategy and governing practice. ND's hegemonic strategy is grounded in both neoliberal and Far-Right premises. This enabled ND to create a hegemonic block that ranges from centrist liberals to far-ri...

Το βιβλίο του Γιώργου Ανδρίτσου, Κινηματογράφος και ιστορία: η Κατοχή και η Αντίσταση στις ελληνικές ταινίες μυθοπλασίας μεγάλου μήκους από το 1945 μέχρι το 1981 αποτελεί μια συστηματική καταγραφή και μελέτη όλων των ελληνικών ταινιών που αναφέρονται στα γεγονότα της Κατοχής της Ελλάδας από τη Γερμανία και τις συμμαχικές της χώρες (Ιταλία και Βουλγ...

Article to be published by Stasis journal (http://stasisjournal.net) in 2021. This paper focuses on Greece's main conservative party of New Democracy (ND) and its resurgence to power in 2019. The study examines ND's hegemonic strategy and its policy framework. ND's hegemonic strategy is grounded on both neoliberal and far-right premises. This enab...

Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few decades, creativity has also been explicitly mobilized by governments around the world as a ‘resource’ for achieving economic growth. The creative economy d...

In this introduction we explore how creativity, loosely referring to activities around the visual arts, music, design, film, and performance, is mobilized by states and governments as a “resource” for economic growth. The creative economy discourse emphasizes individuality, innovation, self-fulfillment, career advancement, and the idea of leading e...

This chapter focuses on discursive constructions of creativity in the Greek public sphere in connection to the Greek government debt crisis. Instrumentalized by policy makers and pundits pursuing neoliberal reforms in Greece, creativity is understood to serve a mode of biopolitical governmentality. This is connected to the production of a national...

Yiannis Mylonas interviewed Nico Carpentier in June 2019, at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, during his visit to HSE-NRU.

The "Greek Crisis" in Europe: Race, Class and Politics, critically analyses the publicity of the Greek debt crisis, by studying Greek, Danish and German mainstream media during the crisis' early years (2009-2015). Mass media everywhere reproduced a sensualistic "Greek crisis" spectacle, while iterating neoliberal and occidentalist ideological myths...

(Το άρθρο δημοσιεύτηκε στα Σύγχρονα Θέματα, Τεύχος 147-148, Οκτώβριος – Απρίλιος 2020). Το άρθρο αυτό εστιάζει στη μελέτη των αναπαραστάσεων της ελληνικής κρίσης στον Τύπο της Γερμανίας και της Δανίας. Σχετικές μελέτες έχουν δείξει ότι τα Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης βασίστηκαν σε μεγάλο βαθμό στην επίσημη εκδοχή της κρίσης, όπως αυτή διατυπώθηκε από...

This article draws attention to one of the neglected aspects of trolling in current literature: its potential to stand as a form of cultural politics that may inform counter-hegemonic challenges to prevalent ideologies. Rather than merely perceiving trolling as a threat to normality or a proof of the internet’s dystopic character, we look at the wa...

Produced and screened in 2017, Pantelis Voulgaris's To teleftaio simeioma/The Last Note reconstructs the story of the massacre of two hundred imprisoned Communists, in retaliation for the execution of four Nazis by the Greek Resistance, in 1944. The analysis proposes a political reading of the film, as it deals with the collective trauma of the Occ...

Since the early years of the debt crisis in 2010, a large part of liberal intellectuals and public commentators in Greece has argued for an interpretative framework with the notion of ‘national identity’ as the root of all troubles. Their narrative presents the crisis as an opportunity for Greeks to rediscover themselves and acquire a more ‘Western...

The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics, critically analyses the publicity of the Greek debt crisis, by studying Greek, Danish and German mainstream media during the crisis’ early years (2009-2015). Mass media everywhere reproduced a sensualistic “Greek crisis” spectacle, while iterating neoliberal and occidentalist ideological myths...

Το είδος των διακοπών που μελετά η Σούζαν Μπακ-Μορς στην Ελλάδα των δεκαετιών του 1970 και του 1980 αφορά την επίσκεψη σε έναν εξωτικό και μυθικό τόπο τον οποίο επιθυμεί ο τουρίστας (και τον οποίο αναπαράγει ως τέτοιο η τουριστική βιομηχανία) ώστε να αποδράσει από τον «εξορθολογισμένο» τόπο του καπιταλιστικού /βιομηχανικού κέντρου από όπου προέρχετ...

The hegemonic framing of the ‘Greek crisis’, launched by leading liberal and conservative politicians in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere and followed by mass media, reflected deep Western racial prejudices towards the periphery, and stressed typical bourgeois values affirming hard work, while publicly asserting regimes of entitlement to citiz...

This article analyses Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly journal, and its discursive constructions of the oppositional voices against the so-called structural reforms imposed on Greece in the context of the Eurozone crisis. The analysis is focused on relevant articles published by Der Spiegel between late 2009 and early 2015, during important, crisis-rel...

This article presents a critical analysis of the Danish press coverage of the referendum called by the Left-led coalition government of Greece in July 2015, concerning the future of austerity policies. It focuses on the conservative daily press of Denmark, one of the ‘core’ EU countries, writing on developments in the periphery. Three main themes e...

The chapter presents a critical research on Greece’s main conservative party, New Democracy (ND), and its social media use for the Greek national elections of 25 January 2015. Frame analysis was deployed, identifying four main, interrelated master frames as formative of ND’s key logics of the election stakes, and ND’s central messages to be communi...

This study presents a scrutiny of ‘liberal’ discursive constructions of the ‘Enlightenment’ in the Greek public sphere. The study is based on the analysis of articles published in two news/lifestyle websites, ‘AthensVoice’ and ‘Protagon’, during the (ongoing), so-called, ‘Greek crisis’. Discourse theory, informed by critical discourse analysis, is...

The study inquires on the ways content-specific social media pages can function as alternative public spheres, by examining the photography-orientated Facebook and YouTube pages entitled ‘old photographs of Thessaloniki’. The study focuses on the online encountering of absences, notably events of socio-political importance with a traumatic impact,...

This article looks at the ways mainstream media discuss austerity and its failure to reach its proclaimed goals, to reduce public debt and to boost productivity in the heavily indebted countries of the Eurozone’s periphery. This study analyzed Der Spiegel’s articles presenting the crisis and austerity in Europe, focusing on the Greek case, from 200...

This article looks at the ways mainstream media discuss austerity and its failure to reach its proclaimed goals, to reduce public debt and to boost productivity in the heavily indebted countries of the Eurozone’s periphery. This study analyzed Der Spiegel’s articles presenting the crisis and austerity in Europe, focusing on the Greek case, from 200...

This article examines extreme-right online media as a site of discursive struggle over definitions of the causes, consequences and remedies of the European economic crisis. The authors focus on two Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Sweden, which have seen a rise in extreme-right activities across different arenas and in different media in the tur...

Since the early years of the debt crisis in 2010, a large part of liberal intellectuals and commentators in Greece has argued for an interpretative framework with the notion of ‘national identity’ as the root of all troubles. Their narrative presents the crisis as an opportunity for Greeks to rediscover themselves and acquire a more ‘Western’ and m...

This article analyzes neoliberal articulations of the economic crisis in Greece, as they appear at the Ekathimerini daily. Neoliberalism is primarily understood as the ideology organizing the political strategies of late capitalist production. The analysis focuses on the ways the capitalist crisis is presented in the context of Greece, as well as t...

The purpose of this study is threefold: (a) to present an analysis of a moment of what scholars framed as ‘particularist political struggles’, developed in the socio-political context of a given liberal–democratic country. The particularist political struggle examined concerns the negation of the compulsory – to all male citizens-military service o...

This article critically studies documentaries focusing on the “Islamic terrorist threat”, produced in the US and in Western Europe. The particular films relate to the discourses of the growing far right political movements in liberal democracies. The article analyzes the communicational tactics deployed by the filmmakers for counter-terrorist mobil...

This paper casts a look on media aspects of the anti-war-on-terror struggle in western countries. A peculiar warfare, the “war on terror” that officially begun in 2001, is a low-density global warfare, fought in different internal and external fronts . Within a liberal, increasingly post-political social terrain, where social affairs are objects of...

This article critically studies the hegemonic discursive construction of the EU's current (2012) economic crisis, as it is articulated by political and economic elites and by mass media. The study focuses on the political economy of the particular crisis and through the critical concept of reification, the study emphasizes the hegemonic naturalizat...

This article critically studies the hegemonic discursive construction of the EU’s current (2012) economic crisis, as it is articulated by political and economic elites and by mass media. The study focuses on the political economy of the particular crisis and through the critical concept of reification, the study emphasizes the hegemonic naturalizat...

Based on an interview with a hip-hop artist from Eastern Poland, this article critically assesses amateur art pro-duction proliferating throughout the globe today through individuals' creative usages of new ICTs and new media affor-dances. The post-Fordist material and ideological context of contemporary social life is the main focus point of the a...

Based on an interview with a hip-hop artist from Eastern Poland, this article critically assesses amateur art pro-duction proliferating throughout the globe today through individuals’ creative usages of new ICTs and new media affordances. The post-Fordist material and ideological context of contemporary social life is the main focus point of the ar...

Departing from a critical perspective on intellectual property rights, this article investigates the popular phenomenon of free online file-sharing beyond its hegemonic framing as piracy. The article focuses on the civic potentials entailed in free and participatory culture of new media and ICT. A "civic" focus, in the context of free sharing, aims...

This article problematizes piracy a) as a hegemonic discourse and technology of control, aiming to securitize late capitalist accumulation; b) as a practice developed by the multitudes that is compatible to post-Fordist mode of production and to neoliberal norms; and, c) as resistance to dominant mode of late capitalist production, distribution and...