Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meneses, Juan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Postmodernism--Political aspects.

Postmodernism.

Aesthetics--Political aspects.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful political action in today's world. Underscoring the role of the imagination in political engagement and change, the contributors argue for a conscious deployment of aesthetics to resist political anesthesia and promote a more just society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : sensing the postpolitical / Juan Meneses

The infrastructural aesthetic : materialist politics in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel / Christopher Breu

Irrational exuberance : the politics of start- up futurism / Sherryl Vint

Un violador en tu camino : reimagining the political through mediated feminist street performance / Jacquelyn Arcy and Allison Page

Thinking Jacques Ranciere with Ursula K. Le Guin : aesthetics and politics in a postpolitical age / Robert P. Marzec

Wayward possibilities : errant Black women and the intimacies of freedom / Matthew Scully

False specters of the political : revisitation, digital documentary vernacular, and the postpolitical after January 6 / Stephen Charbonneau

Dissensus, refusal, participatory music : negation and rupture in crowd in C / Eric Lemmon A haunted present : postpolitics, nuclear waste, and the colonization of the future / Juan Meneses

Afterword : between two endings, or prolegomena for another end / Erik Swyngedouw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4529-7315-6

OCLC:

1521326264