Epilogue | On Dreams (Before and After the Gezi Protests): The Right to a Liveable Death

By posing the question of what do ʻweʼ dream about, the aim of this chapter is to bring together critical philosophical visions of social transformation and everyday life dilemmas of survival. To do so, it centres on the story of Ali, a transgender activist, who was fighting against transphobia, cancer and eventual death during the 2013 public uprisings at Gezi Park in Istanbul. Focusing on both the historic moment and this personal story, this chapter asks the following: what happens when bodies assemble to protest, resist and lay claim to an-other vision of liveable death, as well as life? More than that, how can one write about what haunts the public sphere if one first needs to trouble assumptions about what dies in death and what might need to survive life? Through these questions, it is explained that because of the fact that we are already implicated in each other’s lives and deaths, as it is argued throughout Affective Activisms, it is important to examine claims and desires for existence while situating these questions as aporias of local and international philosophical and political everyday activist struggles.