Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture: Image, Racialization, History

by Marina Grzinic (Editor), Aneta Stojnic (Editor), Misko Suvakovic (Editor)

Overview

This book places a focus on the regimes of in/visibility and representation in Europe and offers an innovative perspective on the topic of global capitalism in relation to questions of race, class, gender and migration, as well as historicization of biopolitics and (de)coloniality. The aim of this volume is to revisit theories of art, new media technology, and aesthetics under the weight of political processes of discrimination, racism, anti-Semitism and new forms of coloniality in order to propose a new dispositive of the ontology and epistemology of the image, of life and capitalism as well as labor and modes of life. This book is firmly embedded in the present moment, when due to rapid and major changes on all levels of political and social reality the need for rearticulation in theoretical, artistic and political practices and rethinking of historical narratives becomes almost tangible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319551739
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/04/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	173
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Marina Gržinić (PhD) is a philosopher and artist who lives in Ljubljana and works in Ljubljana and Vienna. She is researcher at the FI SRC SASA (Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts) Ljubljana and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Aneta Stojnić (PhD) is a Belgrade-born theoretician, artist and curator. She is assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.
Miško Šuvaković (PhD) is Dean of Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, and professor of theory of art and media in the PhD program of transdisciplinary humanities and theory of art.
Contributions by: Marina Gržinić, Adla Isanović, Alanna Lockward, Federica Martini, Aleksa Milanović, Andrea Pócsik, Aneta  Stojnić, Miško Šuvaković, Šefik Tatlić, Jelena Todorović

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Image, Racialization, History.- 2. Racialized bodies, and the digital (financial) mode of production.- 3. Politics and Aesthetics of Databases and Forensics.- 4. The Emancipation of Necrocapitalism: Teleological Function of Liberalism and the Optimization of Hegemony.- 5. Influence of Western Society on Identity Politics of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Colonial and Post-Colonial India.- 6. Radical Contemporaneity: Politics of the Image in Videos by Gržinić&Šmid.- 7. Affective Constructions: Image – Racialization – History.- 8. Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the 'Secularity' of the Arts.- 9. “Contingent monuments”: Constructions of Publicness in the Fascist Italy Exhibition Complex, 1920s-1940s.- 10. Screened Otherness: A Media Archaeology of Romani Criminalization.- 11. An Image and its Histories: The Uncovering of Rembrandt’s Masterpiece Lost During the Second World War.-

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book discusses new theories of art, aesthetics and media under the weight of very recent political processes of discrimination and racism worldwide. By using interdisciplinary approach and positions such as theory and history of art, cultural studies and critical theory, this publication gives very new insights into strategies of contemporary art and culture today, overlapped with encountered global ideological tensions of global East, West, Nord and South. Papers by eleven internationally renowned scholars are merged into one single ideological frame, from where several questions could be extracted such as what is the role of art in new global political settings? or Does the art have power to be spokesman of disempowered, discriminated, subordinated groups and individuals today? This book is a must read for theoreticians, artist, cultural activists, independent thinkers and journalists.” (Irfan Hošić, University of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina)