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Culture and Contestation in the New Century (Paperback, New)
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Cultural production as we know it has been undergoing significant
restructuring. In an effort to compensate for the global decline in
economic growth, governments and corporations have begun to
seriously consider the creative fields as markets that can be
stimulated through venture capital and regional development
initiatives. Along with the neoliberalization of cultural
institutions, a conservative agenda that is buttressed by a war
economy confronts critics and activists with the repressive forms
of state censorship and police control. From art collectives to the
US-led war on terror, from cultural contestation to neoliberal
governmentality and from alter-global anti-capitalism to the
creative industries, this collection of essays examines the issues
and politics that have marked cultural production in the first
decade of the twenty-first century. In the context of a
proliferation of socially engaged art practices and the
interventions of autonomous art collectives, Culture and
Contestation in the New Century presents the viewpoints of leading
international artists and intellectuals working in the fields of
critical and cultural theory. After the impasse of a postmodern
post-politics 'beyond left and right', what are the possibilities
for a radical politicization of cultural discourse? How has
oppositionality shifted away from identity and difference, as well
as social constructionism, to consider the universal determinations
of contemporary neoliberal capitalism? These essays present a
number of untimely reflections on the conditions of contemporary
cultural practice, subjectivity and political dissidence, making
new connections between cultural production, politics, economics
and social theory. Simply stated, the book provides an account of
the current interface between art and politics.
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