CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Roberson, Nathan Dale |
|---|---|
| Title | Beyond Resistance: Strategic Art as an Escape from the Political Subject of Violence |
| Summary | Political governance is currently situated within a state of modernity that is dependent upon categorization. This fetish on categorization has resulted in a continuous process of “othering” of people and places that ends in marginalization and ontological exclusion from politics proper making violence the genuine political subject. By employing the genealogical method to four case studies of strategic art, one can see how strategic art challenges current modes of reason to reshape modernity as a part of a “truth process” and likewise begins to altogether abandon reason to completely escape the political subject of violence. May Ayim, Ingrid Mwangi, Princess Hijab, and NiqaBitch all individually demonstrate how various mediums of art can be used as a political process that liberates human political subjects from the political subject of violence within France and Germany. Theses artist’s lessons offer constructive feedback on political governance that necessitates the need to approach human identities with enormous specificity while awaiting an epistemic revolution. |
| Supervisor | Alex Astrov |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/roberson_nathan.pdf |
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