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Book SynopsisAnalyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.
Trade Review “The concept of ‘performance constellations’ lends itself to novel forms of materialist analyses that trace the movements of activist actions as they respond to local and transnational economic and political conditions. Fuentes draws dexterously from current theory in performance and digital media studies as well as recent scholarship on neoliberalism, and her firsthand interviews with art-activists offer new insights into performance actions as powerful forms of interventionist art.”
–Natalie Alvarez, Ryerson University|“Timely and important . . . explores how the combination of online and offline activism, in their interdependence, have helped counter many of the most predatory practices of Neoliberalism. Focusing on instances from the 1990s to the present in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, the book explores the many different ways in which performance—and particularly performance as/is event—frames these interventions.”
–Patricia Ybarra, Brown University
