Sensible Politics The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Politics

Name: Sensible Politics The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Politics
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ISBN: 9781935408246

ISBN-10: 1935408240

ISBN-13: 9781935408246

Edition: 2012

Authors: Meg McLagan, Yates McKee

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Political acts are encoded in medial forms--punch holes on a card, images on a live stream, tweets about events unfolding in real time--that have force, shaping people as subjects and forming the contours of what is sensible, legible, and visible. In doing so they define the terms of political possibility and create terrain for political acts. Sensible Politics considers the constitutive role played by aesthetic and performative techniques in the staging of claims by nongovernmental activists. Attending to political aesthetics means focusing not on a disembodied image that travels under the concept of art or visual culture, nor on a preformed domain of the political that seeks subsequent…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 10/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.06" long x 2.16" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Meg McLagan is an independent filmmaker and scholar based in New York City.

Yates McKee is an art critic based in New York City