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Description of  Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

0367755432 rar 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 books 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. Read more