{"product_id":"protest-the-aesthetics-of-resistance-9783037785607","title":"Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eResistance: aesthetic tactics from the suffragettes to 1968 to our tumultuous present \"Make Love Not War \" \"Soyez ralistes  demandez limpossible \" \"Keine Macht fr Niemanden \" \"We are the 99%\": the history of the last 50 years has been accompanied by a constant flow of statements  practices and declarations of dissatisfaction with regard to the prevailing order. These slogans mark moments when dissent has been able to reach from the margins of society into its very centerbeginning as something mostly unorganized and unruly in real or virtual space  sometimes violent  rarely controllable and suddenly erupting into the mainstream. Masterfully and creatively drawing on contemporary signs and symbols  subverting and transforming them to engender new aesthetics and meanings  the legendary moments of 20th-century protest opened up spaces that eluded control. Irony  subversion and provocation pricked small but palpable pinholes in the controlling systems of rule. Protest takes a wide-ranging approach to the practice of protest  bringing together contributors from different disciplines and from around the globe. Social  historical  sociological and political-scientific perspectives play as much of a role in this publication as approaches that draw on image theory  popular culture  cultural studies and the arts. Simultaneously historical and contemporary  the book also explores such present-day developments as the virtualization of activism  the relationship of the virtual and the fictional  and the exploitation of these trends in politics by power-holders of all shades. A timely publication  Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance explores marginalized communities practices of resistance and reflects on the past  present and future of protest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914193788981,"sku":"ByrdShop_3037785608","price":335.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783037785607.jpg?v=1787340347","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/protest-the-aesthetics-of-resistance-9783037785607","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}