Performing Digital Activism: New Aesthetics and Discourses of Resistance 1317434579, 9781317434573

From the emergence of digital protest as part of the Zapatista rebellion, to the use of disturbance tactics against gove

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Performing Digital Activism: New Aesthetics and Discourses of Resistance
1317434579, 9781317434573

Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizens This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East en

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Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizens This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East en

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More than merely linguistic transposition, translation is a vector of power, resistance, rebellion, and even revolution.

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This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens' l

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How aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for p

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Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth

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The intersection of virtual and physical spaces at the heart of contemporary political protests is a pivotal element in

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A new political theory of art and artistic praxis. Leaping into current debates about the political efficacy of art, th

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Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe,

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This volume emerged out of the discussions during the 2009 edition of the Two Thousand + symposia series at the Sonic Ar

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