Marc James Léger

Vanguardia

Socially engaged art and theory

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Produktbeschreibung

Vanguardia chronicles and theorises changing forms of socially engaged art and radical politics since the rise of the anti-globalisation movement. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Live Matter and MeToo, Vanguardia detects signs of avant-garde praxis in the new social movements and activist collectives that challenge global capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781526134899
• ISBN-10: 1526134896
• Artikelnr.: 53708993

Autorenporträt

Marc James Léger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is editor of The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today and author of Brave New Avant Garde, The Neoliberal Undead, Drive in Cinema and Don't Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a thousand contradictions 1 Alter-globalisation,
revolutionary movement and the state mode of production 2 A brief history
of Occupy Wall Street 3 Vanguardia 4 Psychoprotest: dérives of the Quebec
Maple Spring 5 The unrealised extravagance of the avant garde: Test Dept
and the subsumption of labour 6 No strawman for the revolution 7 Beyond
socially enraged art 8 The only game in town Index