Description
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon argues that current artistic and activist practices are no longer concerned with the âœpolitics of representationâ and the critique of the spectacle, but with a âœpolitics of rightsâ and the performative formation of shared yet highly contested public domains.
The book thus offers a critical framework in which to rethink the artistic, the activist, and the political under globalization. The primary focus is on the ways contemporary artists and activists examine political citizenship as a paradox where subjects are struggling to acquire rights whose formulation rests on attributes they allegedly don't have; while the universal political validity of these rights presupposes precisely the abstraction of every form of difference, rights for all.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The Third Citizen: Critique, Belief, and the Problem of Appearance 2. Medium, (Re)Mediation, and the Circulation of Affect 3. The Pulse of the Archive: On the Lives of Images
