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Art as Revolt David Fancy

Art as Revolt By David Fancy

Art as Revolt by David Fancy


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Using philosophies of immanence - conceived by Deleuze, Braidotti, and others - and the arts to challenge contemporary capitalist ways of being human subjects.

Art as Revolt Summary

Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics through Immanent Aesthetics by David Fancy

How can we imagine a future not driven by capitalist assumptions about humans and the wider world? How are a range of contemporary artistic and popular cultural practices already providing pathways to post-capitalist futures? Authors from a variety of disciplines answer these questions through writings on blues and hip hop, virtual reality, post-colonial science fiction, virtual gaming, riot grrrls and punk, raku pottery, post-pornography fanzines, zombie films, and role playing. The essays in Art as Revolt are clustered around themes such as technology and the future, aesthetics and resistance, and ethnographies of the self beyond traditional understandings of identity. Using philosophies of immanence - describing a system that gives rise to itself, independent of outside forces - drawn from a rich and evolving tradition that includes Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Braidotti, the authors and editors provide an engrossing range of analysis and speculation. Together the essays, written by experts in their fields, stage an important collective, transdisciplinary conversation about how best to talk about art and politics today. Sophisticated in its theoretical and philosophical premises, and engaging some of the most pressing questions in cultural studies and artistic practice today, Art as Revolt does not provide comfortable closure. Instead, it is understood by its authors to be a Dionysian machine, a generator of open-ended possibility and potential that challenges readers to affirm their own belief in the futures of this world. Contributors include Timothy J. Beck (University of West Georgia), Mark Bishop (Independent Scholar), Dave Collins (University of West Georgia), David Fancy (Brock University), Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (University of Western Ontario), Malisa Kurtz (Independent Scholar), Nicole Land (Ryerson University), Eric Lochhead (Youth Author Calgary Alberta), Douglas Ord (Doctoral Student University of Western Ontario), Joanna Perkins (Independent Scholar), Peter Rehberg (Institute for Cultural Inquiry-Berlin), Chris Richardson (Young Harris College), Hans Skott-Myhre (Kennesaw State University), and Kathleen Skott-Myhre (University of West Georgia).

Art as Revolt Reviews

The essays in this collection creatively and rigorously demonstrate the wide applicability of the theories of Deleuze and Guattari in a wide variety of aesthetic contexts, and in so doing they refine and develop our understanding of these concepts. Suzanne M. Verderber, Pratt Institute

About David Fancy

David Fancy is professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock University. Hans Skott-Myhre is professor in the Social Work and Human Services Department at Kennesaw State University.

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NLS9780773557291
9780773557291
0773557296
Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics through Immanent Aesthetics by David Fancy
New
Paperback
McGill-Queen's University Press
2019-08-30
264
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