The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead Fish

by Elliot C. Mason

Overview

Set on Idan Hayosh’s peculiar Instagram page of women holding dead fish, The Instagram Archipelago is a conversation with contemporary culture’s logics of gender and race. Working through recent thinking in Black studies and Hayosh’s satirical images, Elliot C. Mason presents the aesthetics of capitalism as a sea that makes everything the same, turning the world into a single form. The Instagram Archipelago brings radical antiracist and feminist scholarship to a general audience, applying a model of thinking beyond gender and race to the strange world of online fishing photos. This funny and fascinating book moves past the liberal celebration of gender and race, towards a tiny island of resistance in a growing archipelago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782798279
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	09/15/2022
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.32(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Elliot C. Mason is a poet, essayist, and PhD candidate at Uppsala University. He is the author of two collections of poetry - Materials for Building a City, and City Embers - and one academic book - Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture. His essays, poems, and translations are widely published, and his plays have been performed at many theatres. He lives with his partner near Uppsala, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Choking on Guys and Gills 19

Idan Hayosh's Institute of Maritime Images, Etc. 162

Author Biography 174

Previous Titles 175

Note to Reader 177

References 178

Further Reading 185

Glossary 190