It's the Political Economy, Stupid
The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory
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It's the Political Economy, Stupid
The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory
About this book
It's the Political Economy, Stupid brings together internationally acclaimed artists and thinkers, including Slavoj Zizek, David Graeber, Judith Butler and Brian Holmes, to focus on the current economic crisis in a sustained and critical manner. In sympathy with the subject matter, the book features powerful original artwork for the cover, and an internal design theme based on the movements of Goldman Sachs stock market values by activist designer Noel Douglas. What emerges is a powerful critique of the current capitalist crisis through an analytical and theoretical response and an aesthetic-cultural rejoinder. By combining artistic responses with the analysis of leading radical theorists, the book expands the boundaries of critique beyond the usual discourse. It's the Political Economy, Stupid argues that it is time to push back against the dictates of the capitalist logic and, by use of both theoretical and artistic means, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword by Pia Hovi-Assad, Pori Art Museum, Finland
- 1. Unspeaking the Grammar of Finance - Gregory Sholette and Oliver Ressler
- 2. It's the Political Economy, Stupid! - Slavoj Žižek
- Comments on Art from the Exhibition 'It's the Political Economy, Stupid'
- 3. The Political Economisation of Art - John Roberts
- 4. Derivative Days: Notes on Art, Finance, and the Unproductive Forces - Melanie Gilligan
- 5. Occupational Realism - Julia Bryan-Wilson
- Comments on Art from the Exhibition 'It's the Political Economy, Stupid' - Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd
- Occupy Wall Street's Anarchist Roots - David Graeber
- 7. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street - Judith Butler
- Comments on Art from the Exhibition 'It's the Political Economy, Stupid' - Thom Donovan
- 8. Sick Sad Life: On the Artistic Reproduction of Capital - Kerstin Stakemeier
- 9. Art After Capitalism - Brian Holmes
- Touring Exhibition Dates
- Notes on Contributors