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Title Thinking, resisting, reading the political / edited by Anneka Esch-van Kan, Stephan Packard, and Philipp Schulte
Edition First edition
Published Zürich : Diaphanes, [2013]
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Series Thinking resistances: current perspectives on politics and communities in the arts ; vol. 2
Thinking resistances: current perspectives on politics and communities in the arts ; v. 2
Contents Table of Contents; Politics and Aesthetics: Introduction / Anneka Esch-van Kan, Stephan Packard, Philipp Schulte; I. Thinking; Introduction / Stephan Packard; From the 'Plebs' to the 'Demos': Two Notions of Political Subjectification / Maria Muhle; Democratic Politics in the Age of Post-Fordism / Chantal Mouffe; As If We Could Trust: Fiction and Aesthetics of the Political / Josef Früchtl; The Political and the Violent: On Resistances / Dieter Mersch; All in Good Time? Fiction and the Possibility of Historic Events / Friedrich Balke
Doing or Not Doing: Politics, Aesthetics, Performance / Jacques RancièreII. Resisting; Introduction / Anneka Esch-van Kan; Ethical Ambivalence / Judith Butler; Thinking Politics Concretely: Negation, Affirmation, and the Dialectics of Dialectics and Non-Dialectics / Frank Ruda; Is Utopianism Dead? / Simon Critchley; Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold / Jon McKenzie; ""Torture Chicks"": Resistance and the Political in Coco Fusco's A Room of One's Own and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators / Anneka Esch-van Kan
'Prendre la parole': Voices of Resistance in Contemporary Theory / Andreas HetzelIII. Reading; Introduction / Anneka Esch-van Kan and Philipp Schulte; Reading Political Theories (not) Reading: Towards a Contemporary Realism of Reference / Armen Avanessian; Contesting ""the Democratic Chattering of the Letter"": Politics of Commentary in 20th Century Literature / Wim Peeters; Realism Today: Art, Politics, and the Critique of Representation / Juliane Rebentisch; 'Plus d'un rôle': Playing Together in Contemporary Dance, Theatre, and Performance / Nikolaus Müller-Schöll
Alternative Genealogies: Critique and Style in Contemporary Performance Art / Philipp SchulteWhy are Story Arcs Dark and Gritty? On the Metaphysics of Seriality in 'Dexter' and Kammerer / Stephan Packard; Critical Reflections on the Ontological Illusion: Rethinking the Relation between Art and Politics / Gabriel Rockhill; Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes "From different directions, we each return to the issues that started an international conference by the same title in Giessen in October 2010 and are continued in this volume"--Page 13
English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 7, 2015)
Subject Political science -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Politics and literature -- Congresses
Art -- Political aspects -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Art -- Political aspects
Political science -- Philosophy
Politics and literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Esch-van Kan, Anneka, editor
Packard, Stephan, editor.
Schulte, Philipp, 1978- editor.
ISBN 9783037344583
303734458X