Deserting from the Culture Wars by Maria Hlavajova - ISBN: 9780262539432
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Escape the culture wars, embrace art, imagine a better future.

Deserting from the Culture Wars

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    150 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 2021

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Summary

Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.

Deserting from the Culture Wars 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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262539432
ISBN-10:0262539438
Author:Maria Hlavajova
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:150
Release Date:5 January 2021
Weight:280g
Dimensions:165mm x 117mm
About The Author

Maria Hlavajova

Maria Hlavajova is the Founding General and Artistic Director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. She is coeditor of Former West- Art and the Contemporary after 1989, and Propositions for Non-Fascist Living- Tentative and Urgent.

Sven Lütticken, an art historian and critic, teaches at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the author of Cultural Revolution- Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy and other books.

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