Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

by Gregory Sholette

Book Overview

In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. And though capitalist crisis does not begin within art, art can reflect and amplify its effects, to positive and negative ends. In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745336841
• ISBN13: 9780745336848
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"