Anna Watkins Fisher

The Play in the System

The Art of Parasitical Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, Anna Watkins Fisher theorizes parasitism-a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781478009702
• ISBN-10: 1478009705
• Artikelnr.: 58383991

Autorenporträt

Anna Watkins Fisher is Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and coeditor of the second edition of  New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction. Toward a Theory of Parasitical Resistance
Interlude. Thresholds of Accommodation
Part I. Redistribution: Institutional Interventions
1. User Be Used: Leveraging the Coercive Hospitality of Corporate Platforms
2. An Opening Structure: Núria Güell and Kenneth Pietrobono's Legal
Loopholes
Part II. Imposition: Intimate Interventions
3. Hangers-On: Chris Kraus's Parasitical Feminism
4. A Seat at the Table: Feminist Performance Art's Institutional Absorption
and Parasitical Legacies
Coda. It's Not You, It's Me: Roisin Byrne and the Parasite's Shifting
Ethics and Politics
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index