Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War

Jennifer Ponce de Leon

Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Duke University Press
Country
United States
Published
19 March 2021
Pages
328
ISBN
9781478010203

Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War

Jennifer Ponce de Leon

In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de Leon examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de Leon shows how experimental practices in the visual, literary, and performing arts have been influenced by and articulated with leftist movements and popular uprisings that have repudiated neoliberal capitalism and its violence. Whether enacting solidarity with Zapatista communities through an alternate reality game or using surrealist street theater to amplify the more radical strands of Argentina’s human rights movement, these artists fuse their praxis with forms of political mobilization from direct-action tactics to economic resistance. Advancing an innovative transnational and transdisciplinary framework of analysis, Ponce de Leon proposes a materialist understanding of art and politics that brings to the fore the power of aesthetics to both compose and make visible a world beyond capitalism.

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