Another Aesthetics Is Possible
Subtitle: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781478012788
Description: "Another Aesthetics is Possible argues that, because aesthetic practices can reconfigure how we perceive the world, they can participate in the multidimensional and collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Drawing on over fifteen years of research, the volume shows how experimental artistic practices-including visual, literary, and performing arts-have been influenced by, and articulated with, left movements, popular uprisings, and social struggles that emerged in resistance to neoliberal capitalism. These include the Zapatista movement, urban social movements in Argentina, struggles against the criminalization and displacement of working-class communities in Los Angeles, and international movements against neoliberal "free trade" and U.S.-led imperialist militarism. By tracing out connections between these collective struggles and art practices that have emerged from them, Another Aesthetics is Possible brings to the fore the vitality and creativity of a contemporary cultural Left whose.