This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions of agency and subjectivity are connected to four contemporary political issues (artificial intelligence, migration and political violence, contemporary medical technologies and practices, and the Anthropocene) and analyzed against a Western legacy of utopian and dystopian ideas and desires that have shaped, and continue to shape, what it means to be human. The book’s main argument is that agency and subjectivity are not universal attributes; rather they are socio-material entanglements and contextually bound enactments that are strategically negotiated by the subject. Thus, they involve conflict, struggle, and other forms of resistance.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, media and cultural studies, disability studies, and gender studies.

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Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Psychology Press Ltd

CRC Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Agency and Subjectivity Defined
Aesthetics
Disability
Gender
Overview of Chapters
Notes
Chapter 1: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Cultures: Power, Control, Artificial Intelligence, and Algorithmic Cultures
Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Cultures Defined
Aesthetics, Art, and Artificial Intelligence
The What, Who, and How of AI
Classification as a Centralizing Power, or What Differences Make a Difference
Who is Accountable and Responsible for What and Why: Issues of Value, Visibility, and AI
Being Artificial
AI as an Intelligent Device
Objectivity, Universality, and AI
AI and the Performance of Intelligence
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 2: Migration and Political Violence
Migration
Political Violence
The Paradox of Truth: Power, Politics, and Representations of Migrationand Political Violence
Viewing Conflict, Commodities, and Communities: Screen-BasedSpectatorship and Migration
A Socially Significant Frontier: From Political Crisis to Cultural Process
Art at the Borders: The Communities of Border Tuner/Sintonizador Fronterizo
The Ethnographic Turn and Participatory Art
The Violence of Aesthetics
Counter Investigations: The Relationship Between Political Violenceand Aesthetics in Torture in Saydnaya Prison
The Courtroom and the Bearer of Testimonies: The Architectural Rendering of Saydnaya
The Judge and the Jury: The Memory Clips
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3: Contemporary Medical Technologies and Practices
Contemporary Medical Technologies and Practices
One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart
The Cultural, Historical, Political, and Mythological Parametersof Disability and the Disabled Body
From the Institution to the Posthuman
One Breath: Instability, Uncertainty, Potentiality, and the Emergenceof a Provisional Self
Defamiliarization, Rejection, Subversion, and the Demedicalization of Disability
Performing the Invisible, Visible
In Summary
Notes
Chapter 4: The Anthropocene: Our Heroic Response to Adversity
The Anthropocene
Broadcasts from Home
Agency, Subjectivity, and the Aesthetic Visualizations of the Anthropocene
Multispecies Storytelling (or How We Tell Stories About Worlds)
Covid in the UK (2020–21)
A Pandemic in the Anthropocene (Or a Crisis within a Crisis)
I Miss All That
The Collective and Potentially Emancipating Spaces of Covid
We are all in this together
In the End...
Notes
Conclusion
The five existential crises of the European continent
Notes
Bibliography
Index

2024-10-28