Aesthetics of Necropolitics (eBook)

Natasha Lushetich (Herausgeber)

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2018
228 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
9781786606860 (ISBN)

Infos

The collection comprises contributions from leading artist-theorists in the fields of necropolitics and tactical media, and from increasingly influential scholars of biomediality and urban performativity

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Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the ';apolitical age', what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches the tendency of which is to show that a particular site or practice is necropolitical by bringing its genealogy into evidence this collection of essays by artist-philosophers and theorist curators articulates the pre-perceptual working of necropolitics through a focus on the senses, assignments of energy, attitudes, cognitive processes, and discursive frameworks.Drawing on different yet complementary methodologies (visual, performance, affect, and network analysis; historiography and ethnography), the contributors analyse cultural fetishes, taboos, sensorial and relational processes anchored in everyday practices, or cued by specific artworks. By mapping the necropolitics' affective cartography, they expand the concept beyond its teleological, anthropocentric, and reductive horizon of ';making and letting die' to include posthuman and posthumous actants, effectively arguing for the necropolitics' transformatory, political potential.

Autor

lt;span>Natasha Lushetich is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Practices & Visual Studies at LaSalle, Singapore, having previously lectured at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the interplay of performativity, hegemony, and biopolitics.

Inhalt

Prologue, Natasha Lushetich

Part I: Sedimentations: Race and Gender

Chapter 1: What is the Aesthetics of Necropolitics?, Marina Gržinić

Chapter 2: Get Out: From Atlantic Slavery to Black Lives Matter, Sarah Juliet Lauro

Chapter 3: Aesthetic Autonomy at the Border: Notes on Necro-Art, Verónica Tello

Part II: Abstractions: Technological, Financial, Cultural, Scientific

Chapter 4: Inside the Corpse of Abstraction, Franco Berardi

Chapter 5: Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish, Jens Hauser

Chapter 6: Desire, DNA, and Transgenetic Technology: Life After Necropolitics, Mi You

Part III: Tactics: Detouring the Limits, Overbidding, Mourning

Chapter 7: Necropolitics and the Dark Comedy of the Posthuman, Critical Art Ensemble

Chapter 8: Dirty your Media: Artists’ Experiments in Bio-Sovereignty, Tiffany Funk

Chapter 9: Intimacy, Ignorance, and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement, Malin Palani

Epilogue: Archipelagoes of the Unseen Islands of the Forgotten, May Joseph

About the Contributors

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Experiments/On the Political
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Affect • Creative Methods • Creative Theory • Cultural Studies • Experimental Politics • Labour • Performance • Political Philosophy • political theory • posthumanism • temporality • visual politics
• ISBN-13: 9781786606860 / 9781786606860