Marc James Léger

Vanguardia (eBook, ePUB)

Socially engaged art and theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militarism and ecological crisis, this postmodern view seems increasingly outmoded. Rejecting 'end of ideology' post-politics, Vanguardia delves into the changing praxis of socially engaged art and theory in the age of the Capitalocene. Covering the major events of the last decade, from anti-globalisation protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Maple Spring, Strike Debt and the Anthropocene, to the Black Lives Matter and MeToo campaigns, Vanguardia puts forward a radical leftist commitment to the revolutionary consciousness of avant-garde art and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526134905
• Artikelnr.: 56524105

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