Paolo Saporito

Wu Ming's Transmedia Activism

Ethical and Political Challenges to Neoliberalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the activism of the Italian collective Wu Ming. Engaging in a dynamic conversation with critical theory, post-workerist philosophy and eco-criticism, Saporito illuminates how Wu Ming's forms of protest radically challenge neoliberal models of subjectivity through a revived commitment to an eco-centric ethics. The book charts how Wu Ming's interventions, combining embodied, literary and online activism, aim to performatively create life-rhythms, practices and ultimately a political subjectivity alternative to fast-paced anthropocentric models imposed by neoliberal apparatuses. In-depth analyses of Wu Ming's participation in the 27th Genoa G8 Summit, literary texts and online presence define the trajectory of their interventions, which moved from a traumatic repudiation of neoliberal apparatuses in Genoa to a thorough exploration of how these apparatuses produce and control subjectivity. Wu Ming's literary texts invite the reader to grasp the complexity of the human-non-human relations these apparatuses exploit, while affirmatively exploring eco-centric ethical relations to the non-human other. Wu Ming open their bodies to these relations via hikes, walks, and performances where they try out slow-paced life rhythms and experiment with the non-human affordances of multiple media. Wu Ming's transmedia activism links these offline initiatives with online strategies that promote the collective creation of critical content, slow down online users' fast-paced experience, and mobilise a network of human and non-human agents that re-energise embodied, street actions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-57887-8
• 2024
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9783031578878
• ISBN-10: 3031578872
• Artikelnr.: 70132248

Autorenporträt

Paolo Saporito is Research Officer at University College Cork. He has a PhD in Italian Studies from McGill University. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of literature, films and online media.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Mapping Wu Ming's Transmedia Activism in Neoliberal Society.- Chapter 2: Performing the Multitude: Linguistic and Material Enactments of a Political Subjectivity.- Chapter 3: The Production of Subjectivity in Wu Ming's Literary Forms of Expression.- Chapter 4: Machinic Assemblages of Political Intervention Across Transmedia Networks.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.