The Aesthetics of Collective Agency (Paperback)

Simone Knewitz

ISBN 10: 3837668150 / ISBN 13: 9783837668155

Editore: Transcript Verlag, 2024

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Paperback. Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional institutions of Western liberal democracies still wield significant political power, new forms of collective agency most visible in progressive social protest movements, but also in the global rise of populism have increasingly put pressure on established systems of collective organization. The contributors to this volume explore the social, political, and aesthetic forms that collective agency takes in the twenty-first century across a variety of media, including social platforms such as TikTok, multiplayer video games, and contemporary lyric poetry. Working across disciplinary divides, the volume explores the contemporary discourses that shape the forms and patterns of collective life in the future. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: The Aesthetics of Collective Agency (Paperback)
• Editore: Transcript Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3837668150
• ISBN 13: 9783837668155
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional institutions of Western liberal democracies still wield significant political power, new forms of collective agency - most visible in progressive social protest movements, but also in the global rise of populism - have increasingly put pressure on established systems of collective organization. The contributors to this volume explore the social, political, and aesthetic forms that collective agency takes in the twenty-first century across a variety of media, including social platforms such as Tiktok, multiplayer video games, and contemporary lyric poetry.

Informazioni sull'autore

Simone Knewitz is senior lecturer for North American studies at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. Her research focuses on poetry and poetics, cultural aesthetics and rhetoric, and the intersections of law, economics, and culture. Her current projects explore collective agency in twenty-first century North American poetry and protest movements, and the politics of whiteness in contemporary U.S. political discourses.
Stefanie Mueller (Dr.) is an adjunct professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her research areas include the environmental, legal, and economic humanities, with current research projects exploring citizenship in contemporary US lyric poetry and law as well as the representation of the scales of climate change in literature.