Cultural activism : practices, dilemmas, and possibilities / / editors, Begüm Özden Firat, Aylin Kuryel.

This volume addresses contemporary activist practices that aim to interrupt and reorient politics as well as culture. The specific tactics analyzed here are diverse, ranging from culture jamming, sousveillance, media hoaxing, adbusting, subvertising, street art, to hacktivism, billboard liberation,...

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Superior document:Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 21
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (255 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Cultural Activism
  • Introduction. Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, and Possibilities / Begüm Özden Fırat and Aylin Kuryel
  • The Notion of Irony in Cultural Activism / Gavin Grindon
  • The Resonance of Romanticism: Activist Art and the Bourgeois Horizon / A. K. Thompson
  • Lots of Money Because I am Many: The Luther Blissett Project and the Multiple-Use Name Strategy / Marco Deseriis
  • The Separation Wall in Palestine: Artists Love to Hate It / Ronen Eidelman
  • Breaking Out of the Specialist “Ghetto”: Performative Encounters as Participatory Praxis in Radical Politics / Anja Kanngieser
  • A Proposal for Grounded Cultural Activism: Communication Strategies, Adbusters and Social Change / Emrah Irzık
  • Bakunin’s Poor Cousins: Engaging Art for Tactical Interventions / Christian Scholl
  • Clowndestine Maneuvers: A Study of Clownfrontational Tactics / L. M. Bogad
  • Play with Authority!: Radical Performance and Performative Irony / Michael Shane Boyle
  • Appendix: Inventory of Practices / Editors Cultural Activism
  • The Contributors / Editors Cultural Activism
  • Index / Editors Cultural Activism.