Author : Maria Hlavajova
Release : 2020-11-24
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 953/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deserting from the Culture Wars by : Maria Hlavajova
Download or read book Deserting from the Culture Wars written by Maria Hlavajova. This book was released on 2020-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the "culture wars"--a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture. Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the "culture wars." How are these culture wars defined and waged? Engaging in a theater of war that has been delineated by the enemy is a shortcut to defeat. Getting out of the reactive mode that produces little but a series of Pavlovian responses, this book proposes a tactical desertion from the culture wars as they are being waged today--a refusal to play the other side's war games, an unwillingness to be distracted.