UPC: 9781935408246 | Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Politics (Hardcover)

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Political acts are encoded in medial forms — feet marching on a street punch holes on a card images on live stream tweets — that have force shaping people as subjects and constituting the contours of what is sensible legible visible. Thus these events define the terms of political possibility and create terrain for political actions. Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism considers the constitutive role played by aesthetic and performative techniques in the staging of claims by nongovernmental activists. Attending to political aesthetics means focusing not on a disembodied image that travels under the concept of art or visual culture nor on a preformed domain of the political that seeks subsequent expression in media form. Instead it requires bringing the two realms together into the same analytic frame. Drawing on the work of a diverse group of contributors from art historians anthropologists and political theorists to artists filmmakers and architects Sensible Politics situates aesthetic forms within broader activist contexts and networks of circulation and in so doing offers critical insight into the practices of mediation whereby the political becomes manifest. Contributors include: Barbara Abrash Negar Azimi Ariella Azoulay Amahl Bishara Judith Butler Eduardo Cadava Jonathan Crary Ann Cvetkovich Faye Ginsburg Sam Gregory Zeynep Devrim Gürsel Roger Hallas Andrew Herscher Sandi Hilal Kirsten Johnson Liza Johnson Thomas Keenan Carrie Lambert-Beatty Jaleh Mansoor Yates McKee Meg McLagan Alessandro Petti Hugh Raffles Felicity D. Scott Kendall Thomas Leshu Torchin Eyal Weizman Benjamin J. Young Huma Yusuf and Charles Zerner.