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What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-425792020-10-15T00:37:23Z The Play in the System Fisher, Anna Watkins parasitism; resistance; complicity; hospitality; neoliberal; performance; feminism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFK Feminism & feminist theory bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFK Non-graphic art forms::AFKP Performance art What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect subversion from within hegemonic structures. Fisher tracks the ways in which artists on the margins—from hacker collectives like Ubermorgen to feminist writers and performers like Chris Kraus—have willfully abandoned the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anticapitalism and feminism. Space for resistance is found instead in the mutually, if unevenly, exploitative relations between dominant hosts giving only as much as required to appear generous and parasitical actors taking only as much as they can get away with. The irreverent and often troubling works that result raise necessary and difficult questions about the conditions for resistance and critique under neoliberalism today. 2020-10-13T15:33:13Z 2020-10-13T15:33:13Z 2020 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42579 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781478091660_Fisher_text.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478091660 10.1215/9781478091660 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9949e817-5fb3-445a-bbe8-be1ed954285c Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 304 Durham Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem University of Michigan U-M open access
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description What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect subversion from within hegemonic structures. Fisher tracks the ways in which artists on the margins—from hacker collectives like Ubermorgen to feminist writers and performers like Chris Kraus—have willfully abandoned the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anticapitalism and feminism. Space for resistance is found instead in the mutually, if unevenly, exploitative relations between dominant hosts giving only as much as required to appear generous and parasitical actors taking only as much as they can get away with. The irreverent and often troubling works that result raise necessary and difficult questions about the conditions for resistance and critique under neoliberalism today.
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