Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices

Download or read book Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices written by Saul Newman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism, police violence, right-wing populism, 'post-truth' discourse, economic inequality, pandemics, and the environmental crisis, transforming the public sphere in new and unexpected ways. It argues that the best way to understand these new critical discourses and practices is through an updated political theory of anarchism - or what we call postanarchism - where the insurrection against power and the politics of singularity are central"--