{"product_id":"deserting-from-the-culture-wars-isbn-9780262539432","title":"Deserting from the Culture Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eArtists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeserting from the Culture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the “culture wars.” How are these culture wars defined and waged? Engaging in a theater of war that has been delineated by the enemy is a shortcut to defeat. Getting out of the reactive mode that produces little but a series of Pavlovian responses, this book proposes a tactical desertion from the culture wars as they are being waged today—a refusal to play the other side's war games, an unwillingness to be distracted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volunteer troops in the culture wars are often given marching orders by professional masters of propaganda. What, then, might artists and others who are professionally engaged with images and imaginaries, with narratives and assemblies, have to contribute to the collective discovery of different modes of living culture? Far from limiting the performance of culture to a one-sided speech act, to the abstract “right to say something,” an emancipatory understanding of culture needs to conceive of it as embodied and intersubjective—as a collective performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBini Adamczak, Kader Attia, Rose Hammer, Tom Holert, Charl Landvreugd and Sebastian Olma, Geert Lovink and Esmee Schoutens, Sven Lütticken, Diana McCarty, Dan McQuillan, Johannes Paul Raether, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Jonas Staal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e002 The   Big 4ever Andreas Siekmann \u003cbr\u003e 011 Foreword Maria Hlavajova \u003cbr\u003e 021 Performing Culture Otherwise Sven Lütticken \u003cbr\u003e 053 Transfixing the Fascist Episteme Tom Holert \u003cbr\u003e 077 be(coming) media— Technofeminist Pasts, Presents \u0026amp; Potentials Diana   McCarty \u003cbr\u003e 095 The Promises of the Present Bini Adamczak \u003cbr\u003e 107 From ReproModernism to ReproTechnoTribal (beta): A Disruption of   Modernist Family Relations in Four Psycho-Realist Diagrams Transformella   cared for by Johannes Paul Raether \u003cbr\u003e 125 Contagion Propagations Jonas Staal \u003cbr\u003e 153 The Radical Flu: A Collective Work Document Toward a Performance Rose   Hammer \u003cbr\u003e 173 Knotting Against the Machine Natascha Sadr Haghighian \u003cbr\u003e 187 Remembering the Future Kader Attia \u003cbr\u003e 203 The Invisible Culture Wars Geert Lovink (in conversation with Sven   Lütticken and Esmee Schoutens)\u003cbr\u003e 227 Deep Bureaucracy and Autonomist AI Dan McQuillan \u003cbr\u003e 243 Contributors \u003cbr\u003e 251 Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e 252 Index \u003cbr\u003e 264 The Big 4ever Andreas SiekmannMaria Hlavajova is the Founding General and Artistic Director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. She is coeditor of F\u003ci\u003eormer West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePropositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSven Lütticken, an art historian and critic, teaches at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e (Sternberg Press) and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300608069861,"sku":"NP9780262539432","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539432.jpg?v=1767725009","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/deserting-from-the-culture-wars-isbn-9780262539432","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}