Workers of the world, enjoy! : aesthetic politics from revolutionary syndicalism to the global justice movement / Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Kenneth H.

Series:

Politics, history, and social change.

Politics, history, and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--History.

Popular culture.

Art--Political aspects--History.

Art.

Social movements--History.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Penn. : Temple University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model for understanding social change in our image-saturated and aesthetically charged world. As emotional and artistic images inform our perceptions and evaluation of politics, art and performance often provide new and creative ways of understanding self and society. Spanning

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Theoretical Reflections; 1. Public Life, Aesthetics, and Social Theory; 2. Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics; 3. Identity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Aesthetic Politics; Part II - History and Social Movements; 4. The World Is a Stage and Life Is a Carnival: The Rise of the Aesthetic Sphere and Popular Culture; 5. Labor and Aesthetic Politics: French Revolutionary Syndicalism, the IWW, and Fascism; 6. The Flowering of Aesthetic Politics: May 1968, the New Social Movements, and the Global Justice Movement; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-59213-766-0

OCLC:

639016130