How can we imagine a future not driven by capitalist assumptions
about humans and the wider world? How are a range of contemporary
artistic and popular cultural practices already providing pathways
to post-capitalist futures? Authors from a variety of disciplines
answer these questions through writings on blues and hip hop,
virtual reality, post-colonial science fiction, virtual gaming,
riot grrrls and punk, raku pottery, post-pornography fanzines,
zombie films, and role playing. The essays in Art as Revolt are
clustered around themes such as technology and the future,
aesthetics and resistance, and ethnographies of the self beyond
traditional understandings of identity. Using philosophies of
immanence - describing a system that gives rise to itself,
independent of outside forces - drawn from a rich and evolving
tradition that includes Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Braidotti,
the authors and editors provide an engrossing range of analysis and
speculation. Together the essays, written by experts in their
fields, stage an important collective, transdisciplinary
conversation about how best to talk about art and politics today.
Sophisticated in its theoretical and philosophical premises, and
engaging some of the most pressing questions in cultural studies
and artistic practice today, Art as Revolt does not provide
comfortable closure. Instead, it is understood by its authors to be
a "Dionysian machine," a generator of open-ended possibility and
potential that challenges readers to affirm their own belief in the
futures of this world. Contributors include Timothy J. Beck
(University of West Georgia), Mark Bishop (Independent Scholar),
Dave Collins (University of West Georgia), David Fancy (Brock
University), Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (University of Western
Ontario), Malisa Kurtz (Independent Scholar), Nicole Land (Ryerson
University), Eric Lochhead (Youth Author Calgary Alberta), Douglas
Ord (Doctoral Student University of Western Ontario), Joanna
Perkins (Independent Scholar), Peter Rehberg (Institute for
Cultural Inquiry-Berlin), Chris Richardson (Young Harris College),
Hans Skott-Myhre (Kennesaw State University), and Kathleen
Skott-Myhre (University of West Georgia).
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