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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791996403321

Titolo

Culture and contestation in the new century [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marc James Léger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Intellect Ltd., 2011

ISBN

1-283-16268-7

9786613162687

1-84150-450-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LégerJean-Marc <1927-2011.>

Disciplina

306.09051

Soggetti

Arts and society

Culture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction: Doing the Unexpected, Creating the Present; Part I: Critical Cultural Practice; Chapter 1: Hans Haacke and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much; Chapter 2: Counting On Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice; Chapter 3: Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism; Part II: Creative Labour and Creative Industries; Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Creative': Artists as Pioneers of the New Economy?

Chapter 11: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer III and the Status of the OtherChapter 12: On the Permanent Actuality for Revolutionary Cultural Politics of President Mao Ze Dong's Slogan 'Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution'; Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

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