Deserting from the culture wars / edited by Maria Hlavajova and Sven Lütticken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hlavajova, Maria, 1971- editor.

Lütticken, Sven, editor.

Series:

Basics series (BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht, Netherlands))

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture conflict--Philosophy.

Culture conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2020.

Summary:

Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the "culture wars"--a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture. Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the "culture wars." How are these culture wars defined and waged Engaging in a theater of war that has been delineated by the enemy is a shortcut to defeat. Getting out of the reactive mode that produces little but a series of Pavlovian responses, this book proposes a tactical desertion from the culture wars as they are being waged today--a refusal to play the other side's war games, an unwillingness to be distracted. The volunteer troops in the culture wars are often given marching orders by professional masters of propaganda. What, then, might artists and others who are professionally engaged with images and imaginaries, with narratives and assemblies, have to contribute to the collective discovery of different modes of living culture Far from limiting the performance of culture to a one-sided speech act, an emancipatory understanding of culture needs to conceive of speech as embodied and intersubjective--as a collective performance. Contributors Bini Adamczak, Kader Attia, Rose Hammer, Tom Holert, Sven Lütticken, Diana McCarty, Dan McQuillan, Johannes Paul Raether, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Jonas Staal.

Contents:

The big 4ever

Foreword

Performing culture otherwise

Transfixing the fascist epiwteme

be(coming) media-technofeminist pasts, presents & potentials

The promises of the present

From ReproModernism to ReproTechnoTribal (beta): a disruption of modernist family relations in four psycho-realist diagrams

Contagion propagations

The radical flu: a collective work document toward a performance

Knotting against the machine

Remembering the future

The invisible culture wars

Deep bureaucracy and autonomist AI

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Index

The Big 4ever

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36368-2

0-262-36295-3

OCLC:

1187206959