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The Aesthetics of Necropolitics
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Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the 'apolitical age', what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches – the tendency of which is to show that a particular site or practice is necropolitical by bringing its genealogy into evidence – this collection of essays by artist-philosophers and theorist curators articulates the pre-perceptual working of necropolitics through a focus on the senses, assignments of energy, attitudes, cognitive processes, and discursive frameworks.
Drawing on different yet complementary methodologies (visual, performance, affect, and network analysis; historiography and ethnography), the contributors analyse cultural fetishes, taboos, sensorial and relational processes anchored in everyday practices, or cued by specific artworks. By mapping the necropolitics' affective cartography, they expand the concept beyond its teleological, anthropocentric, and reductive horizon of 'making and letting die' to include posthuman and posthumous actants, effectively arguing for the necropolitics' transformatory, political potential.
Drawing on different yet complementary methodologies (visual, performance, affect, and network analysis; historiography and ethnography), the contributors analyse cultural fetishes, taboos, sensorial and relational processes anchored in everyday practices, or cued by specific artworks. By mapping the necropolitics' affective cartography, they expand the concept beyond its teleological, anthropocentric, and reductive horizon of 'making and letting die' to include posthuman and posthumous actants, effectively arguing for the necropolitics' transformatory, political potential.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Part I: SEDIMENTATIONS: Race and Gender
- Chapter One: What Is the Aesthetics of Necropolitics?
- Chapter Two: Get Out: From Atlantic Slavery to Black Lives Matter
- Chapter Three: Aesthetic Autonomy at the Border: Notes on Necro-Art
- Part II: ABSTRACTIONS: Technological, Financial, Cultural, Scientific
- Chapter Four: Inside the Corpse of Abstraction (An Apotropaic Text)
- Chapter Five: Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish
- Chapter Six: Desire, DNA and Transgenetic Technology: Life after Necropolitics
- Part III: TACTICS: Detourning the Limit, Overbidding, Mourning
- Chapter Seven: Necropolitics and the Dark Comedy of the Posthuman
- Chapter Eight: Dirty Your Media: Artists’ Experiments in Digital Bio-Sovereignty
- Chapter Nine: Ignorance, Intimacy and Mourning in Iowa Hog Confinement
- Epilogue: Archipelagoes of the Unseen
- Index
- About the Contributors