{"product_id":"postpolitics-and-the-aesthetic-imagination-hardback-9781517919177","title":"Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (Hardback) 9781517919177","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJuan Meneses (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517919177\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 5 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIgniting political power through the lens of art and the imagination\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the erosion of meaningful political action in today’s world. Gathering writings from an array of scholars, editor Juan Meneses asks: can an aesthetic theory of postpolitics help us understand and counteract the most insidious processes of depoliticization? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The contributors to this volume explore how the aesthetic imagination can play a crucial role in reenvisioning key political elements, including governance, agency, rights, and responsibility. With a survey of various artistic mediums-film, dance, music, literature, and digital media-the essays illustrate how the aesthetic can reveal ways to breathe new life into the work of emancipatory politics. Reclaiming the arts and humanities as vital to political life, the contributors revisit but also move beyond the social sciences’ central focus on neoliberalism and public administration to address other topics such as tech-capitalism, race, environmental violence, and patriarchy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a conscious deployment of aesthetics to resist political anesthesia and promote a more just society, underscoring the role of the imagination in political engagement and change. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Contributors: Jacquelyn Arcy, U of Wisconsin–Parkside; Christopher Breu, Illinois State U; Stephen Charbonneau, Florida Atlantic U; Eric Lemmon, Webster U; Robert P. Marzec, Purdue U; Allison Page, Rutgers U–Camden; Matthew Scully, U of Lausanne; Erik Swyngedouw, U of Manchester; Sherryl Vint, U of California, Riverside. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Sensing the Postpolitical \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Juan Meneses \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. The Infrastructural Aesthetic: Materialist Politics in Karen Tei Yamashita’s \u003ci\u003eI Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Christopher Breu \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Irrational Exuberance: The Politics of Start-up Futurism \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Sherryl Vint \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eUn violador en tu camino\u003c\/i\u003e: Reimagining the Political through Mediated Feminist Street Performance \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Jacquelyn Arcy and Allison Page \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Thinking Jacques RanciÈre with Ursula K. Le Guin: Aesthetics and Politics in a Postpolitical Age  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Robert P. Marzec \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Wayward Possibilities: Errant Black Women and the Intimacies of Freedom \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Matthew Scully \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. False Specters of the Political: Revisitation, Digital Documentary Vernacular, and the Postpolitical after January 6 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Stephen Charbonneau \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. Dissensus, Refusal, Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in \u003ci\u003eCrowd in C\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Eric Lemmon \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8. A Haunted Present: Postpolitics, Nuclear Waste, and the Colonization of the Future \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Juan Meneses \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Afterword: Between Two Endings, or Prolegomena for Another End \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Erik Swyngedouw \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619261411608,"sku":"9781517919177","price":65.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/postpolitics-and-the-aesthetic-imagination-hardback-9781517919177","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}