The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militarism and ecological crisis, this postmodern view seems increasingly outmoded. Rejecting 'end of ideology' post-politics, Vanguardia delves into the changing praxis of socially engaged art and theory in the age of the Capitalocene. Cover...
The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militarism and ecological crisis, this postmodern view seems increasingly outmoded. Rejecting 'end of ideology' post-politics, Vanguardia delves into the changing praxis of socially engaged art and theory in the age of the Capitalocene. Covering the major events of the last decade, from anti-globalisation protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Maple Spring, Strike Debt and the Anthropocene, to the Black Lives Matter and MeToo campaigns, Vanguardia puts forward a radical leftist commitment to the revolutionary consciousness of avant-garde art and politics.
作者简介
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Marc James Léger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is editor of The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today and author of Brave New Avant Garde, The Neoliberal Undead, Drive in Cinema and Don't Network.
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Vanguardia makes the case for a renewed avant-garde praxis in the fields of both art and politics. In the relative absence of an organised, effective and democratically-based left, the task of the avant-grade is to elucidate the contemporary workings of capital and to support the existing forms of progressive cultural and political expression, however weak and disoriented they may be. Vanguardism is work in leftist militancy. It is neither high theory, produced by the 'traditional' intellectual in their so-called ivory tower, nor is it simply 'organic' grassroots pragmatism, defined solely by fieldwork with people who are otherwise too busy with projects to question the broader effectiveness of their work. Socially engaged art and theory is autonomous in the sense that it is not always imm... (查看原文)
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