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Culture class

By: Contributor(s): Series: E-flux journal (Series)Publisher: Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013]Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9781934105818
  • 1934105813
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N72.S6 R67 2013
Contents:
Take the money and run? can political and socio-critical art "survive"? -- Culture class -- Part i: art and urbanism -- Part ii: creativity and its discontents -- Part iii: in the service of experience(s) -- The artistic mode of revolution: from gentrification to occupation -- Contemporary art at center and periphery.
Production credits:
  • With an introduction by Stephen Squibb.
Subject: In this collection of essays, Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute the friendly user interface of a new social sphere in which, for those who have been granted a place within it, an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be either utterly dissolved or willfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification, and one no longer asks where all of this came from and how. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic.e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle --Publisher's website.
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Collected essays, written 2010-2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Take the money and run? can political and socio-critical art "survive"? -- Culture class -- Part i: art and urbanism -- Part ii: creativity and its discontents -- Part iii: in the service of experience(s) -- The artistic mode of revolution: from gentrification to occupation -- Contemporary art at center and periphery.

With an introduction by Stephen Squibb.

In this collection of essays, Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute the friendly user interface of a new social sphere in which, for those who have been granted a place within it, an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be either utterly dissolved or willfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification, and one no longer asks where all of this came from and how. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic.e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle --Publisher's website.

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