Culture and contestation in the new century / edited by Marc James Leger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Léger, Jean-Marc, 1927-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society.

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction: Doing the Unexpected, Creating the Present; Part I: Critical Cultural Practice; Chapter 1: Hans Haacke and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much; Chapter 2: Counting On Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice; Chapter 3: Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism; Part II: Creative Labour and Creative Industries; Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Creative': Artists as Pioneers of the New Economy?

Chapter 11: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer III and the Status of the Other; Chapter 12: On the Permanent Actuality for Revolutionary Cultural Politics of President Mao Ze Dong's Slogan 'Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution'; Contributors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-16268-7

9786613162687

1-84150-450-5

OCLC:

714572250