Aesthetics of Necropolitics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the ‘apolitical age’, what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches – the tendency of which is to show that a particular site or practice is necropolitical by bringing its genealogy into evidence – this collection of essays by artist-philosophers and theorist curators articulates the pre-perceptual working of necropolitics through a focus on the senses, assignments of energy, attitudes, cognitive processes, and discursive frameworks.Drawing on different yet complementary methodologies (visual, performance, affect, and network analysis; historiography and ethnography), the contributors analyse cultural fetishes, taboos, sensorial and relational processes anchored in everyday practices, or cued by specific artworks. By mapping the necropolitics’ affective cartography, they expand the concept beyond its teleological, anthropocentric, and reductive horizon of ‘making and letting die’ to include posthuman and posthumous actants, effectively arguing for the necropolitics’ transformatory, political potential.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-11
Mått:159 x 232 x 19 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786606853

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Natasha Lushetich is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Practices & Visual Studies at LaSalle, Singapore, having previously lectured at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the interplay of performativity, hegemony, and biopolitics.

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The Aesthetics of Necropolitics offers penetrating essays on contemporary artistic and theoretical attempts to grapple with our shiny techtoys and medicalized bodies, and the abattoirs, literal and metaphorical, of their bio-informatic production. Natasha Lushetich's Prologue locates Mbembe's term in its theoretical matrix and sets up the way in which the essays probe and twist that which "necropolitics" reveals of our world: its gendering, racializing, and sexualizing practices; the politicizing and de-politicizing of "citizens" and "refugees"; and intersecting all of them, the management of life and the dealing of death. The essays themselves produce a mixed feeling of pride and shame: pride at the courage and inventiveness of the authors, and shame at living in a world whose practices they so carefully investigate. One can only hope that such shame can provoke resistance to what so many have to see and suffer today.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue, Natasha LushetichPart I: Sedimentations: Race and GenderChapter 1: What is the Aesthetics of Necropolitics?, Marina GržinicChapter 2: Get Out: From Atlantic Slavery to Black Lives Matter, Sarah Juliet LauroChapter 3: Aesthetic Autonomy at the Border: Notes on Necro-Art, Verónica TelloPart II: Abstractions: Technological, Financial, Cultural, ScientificChapter 4: Inside the Corpse of Abstraction, Franco BerardiChapter 5: Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish, Jens HauserChapter 6: Desire, DNA, and Transgenetic Technology: Life After Necropolitics, Mi YouPart III: Tactics: Detouring the Limits, Overbidding, MourningChapter 7: Necropolitics and the Dark Comedy of the Posthuman, Critical Art EnsembleChapter 8: Dirty your Media: Artists’ Experiments in Bio-Sovereignty, Tiffany FunkChapter 9: Intimacy, Ignorance, and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement, Malin PalaniEpilogue: Archipelagoes of the Unseen Islands of the Forgotten, May JosephAbout the Contributors In