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Diabolical Frivolity Of Neoliberal Fundamentalism, Sefik Tatlic
Diabolical Frivolity Of Neoliberal Fundamentalism, Sefik Tatlic
Sefik Tatlic
Today, we cannot talk just about plain control, but we must talk about the nature of the interaction of the one who is being controlled and the one who controls, an interaction where the one that is “controlled” is asking for more control over himself/herself while expecting to be compensated by a surplus of freedom to satisfy trivial needs and wishes. Such a liberty for the fulfillment of trivial needs is being declared as freedom. But this implies as well the freedom to choose not to be engaged in any kind of socially sensible or politically articulated struggle.
Can There Be A Critical Collaborative Ethnography?, Rachel Breunlin, Helen A. Regis
Can There Be A Critical Collaborative Ethnography?, Rachel Breunlin, Helen A. Regis
Rachel Breunlin
In this article we wrote for Collaborative Anthropologies, Helen and I use a case study of a participatory poster project to explore the intersections of "community art" and collaborative ethnography, and to consider how to engage in critical issues of race, class, and culture while working with a diverse group of artists and community activists in New Orleans.
Eschatalogicallandscape, Kirby Farrell Prof
Eschatalogicallandscape, Kirby Farrell Prof
kirby farrell
Nazi obsession with art can be understood as a strategy for managing death-anxiety. The venerable trope of "immortal art" took on fetishistic qualities in the fantasies of the Nazi leadership. For many of them, art compensated for the trauma of World War I by framing idealized vitality invested with visionary self-expansiveness, as in the hyperbolic nudes of Thorak and Brekker, combined with a nostalgic recuperation of lost Victorian-era authority. In Ernest Becker’s terms, as creaturely motives, the manic looting of art works described in Lynn Nicholas’ The Rape of Europa acts out greed for life, appropriating hypostatized vitality as the …