Culture and Contestation in the New Century - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841504262 ISBN 13 : 9781841504261

Editeur : Intellect Books, 2011

Synopsis

Cultural production as we know it has been undergoing significant restructuring. In an effort to compensate for the global decline in economic growth, governments and corporations have begun to seriously consider the creative fields as markets that can be stimulated through venture capital and regional development initiatives. Along with the neoliberalization of cultural institutions, a conservative agenda that is buttressed by a war economy confronts critics and activists with the repressive forms of state censorship and police control.

From art collectives to the US-led war on terror, from cultural contestation to neoliberal governmentality and from alter-global anti-capitalism to the creative industries, this collection of essays examines the issues and politics that have marked cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the context of a proliferation of socially engaged art practices and the interventions of autonomous art collectives, Culture and Contestation in the New Century presents the viewpoints of leading international artists and intellectuals working in the fields of critical and cultural theory. After the impasse of a postmodern post-politics ‘beyond left and right’, what are the possibilities for a radical politicization of cultural discourse? How has oppositionality shifted away from identity and difference, as well as social constructionism, to consider the universal determinations of contemporary neoliberal capitalism? These essays present a number of untimely reflections on the conditions of contemporary cultural practice, subjectivity and political dissidence, making new connections between cultural production, politics, economics and social theory. Simply stated, the book provides an account of the current interface between art and politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marc James Léger is a Marxist cultural theorist living in Montreal. He is the author of Too Black to Fail: The Obama Portraits and the Politics of Post-Representation (Red Quill Books, 2022), Bernie Bros Gone Woke: Class, Identity, Neoliberalism (Brill, 2022) and editor of Identity Trumps Socialism: The Class and Identity Debate after Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2023).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Intellect Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841504262
• ISBN 13: 9781841504261
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Éditeur: Léger Marc James
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