Spatial Resistance (eBook)

Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism

Christian Beck (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
216 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5242-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book uses literary analysis and digital humanities to show how social justice can be enacted in everyday actions through changing the way we think about lived spaces. As corporate and state powers increase, it is necessary to examine ways to democratize space based on the shared values of equality, liberty, and solidarity.

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Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism utilizes various literary and digital artifacts to show the potential and possibility of changing the ways we consider the spaces we inhabit. As many spaces become increasingly privatized and policed, it is necessary to contemplate ways in which corporate and state-controlled spaces can not only be subverted but fundamentally changed to embrace the diverse lived experiences of all peoples. Through an analysis of fictional and virtual spaces, readers will be able to identify new ways to institute spatial change in everyday spatial lives in an effort to promote more democratic and equal experiences. While this book uses primarily the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to engender change, it also provides practical examples to amend, change, or update the actions to suit particular needs and spaces. This book shows that radical politics and the possibility of significant change can reside in just about any object or narrative; it is the responsibility of the individual to take up the task of creating social change premised on equality, liberty, and solidarity.

Autor

Christian Beck is lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Nomad in the DesertChapter 1: Post-Modern Theory, Pre-Modern Tactics: Using the Past to Resist the PresentChapter 2: The Tempest and the Coming StormChapter 3: Dietland: The Spatial, Revolutionary BodyChapter 4: Remapping the StoryChapter 5: Digital Spaces and the Rise of HacktivismChapter 6: #Tagging Social Space: Graffiti and ResistanceChapter 7: De-Aerialization: Drones and Volumizing SpaceChapter 8: Digital ResistanceConclusion: Nationalism is Not the AnswerBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: activism • Deleuze • drones • Graffiti • Guattari • Hacktivism • Neoliberalism • radical politics • resistance • Social Justice • Spatial Theory
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5242-0 / 1498552420
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5242-4 / 9781498552424