Resisting Neo-Liberal Power through Art, Design and Theory
ed. by Benda Hofmeyr (ed.) : with contr. by BAVO, Hito Steyerl, Benda Hofmeyr, Erik Swyngedouw, Daniël van der Velden
- Author(s)
- BAVO, Hito Steyerl, Benda Hofmeyr, Erik Swyngedouw, Daniël van der Velden
- Editor(s)
- Benda Hofmeyr
- Publication
- , Maastricht : , 2008. - 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm : Jan van Eyck Academie, 2008
- Scope
- 160 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789072076298
Published in connection with the colloquium of the same name that was held at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht on 3 November 2006. Set against the background of a viewing and discussion of the documentary film ‘Wal-Mart: The High Costs of Low Price (Robert Greenwald, 2005), a persuasive appeal was made to formulate a form of resistance against the proliferation of neoliberalism. The convener of the colloquium, Benda Hofmeyr, holds the global economic and social plague of neoliberalism responsible for the condition of precarity. In general, what is meant by this is the increasing disappearance of the autonomous world of local economies, cultural production, cinema, publishers, and so on, as a result of the ‘neoliberal disruption of the economy’. For the arts this then implies an impoverishment and losing out of small-scale initiatives, often involving local art production, to competition. In every way, it’s a situation that needs to be actively resisted.
- Keywords
- critical aesthetics , neo liberalism , precariousness , creative economy
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme
- Remarks
- Includes notes
