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Does social change happen 鈥渢op down鈥� or 鈥渂ottom up鈥濃�攂rought about by those who hold power or by those who struggle against the powerful? In Street Knowledge, Darien Pollock argues that the most powerful change comes from the bottom up. 鈥淪treet culture鈥� supplies the creative activity that inspires not only political change but any kind of positive social change. Pollock argues that part of what prevents progressive social change is that people in power only legitimize and respond to ideas and arguments that are legible to them; marginal actors鈥攖hose with street knowledge鈥攁re forced to develop ways of making ideas that are illegible to the broader public meaningful and useful. At its best, street knowledge can be used to address civic injustice, cultural hegemony, and economic exploitation.

Reading Plato, Marx, DuBois, Derrida, and others, Pollock discovered that academic philosophy has had a street orientation all along. The core qualities he associated with the 鈥渟treet disposition鈥濃�攖he psychological and spiritual capacity to resist an unjust social arrangement鈥攚ere already represented in Plato鈥檚 Republic. Drawing on the late Congressman John Lewis鈥檚 idea of 鈥済ood trouble鈥� as well as Socrates, Pollock argues that 鈥渢he street鈥� should be understood as a universal feature of the human condition鈥攚ith the potential to emerge anywhere at any time. Street knowledge, Pollock contends, lays the foundation for a radically new way of doing philosophy and achieving social justice.