Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization: benign pessimism, tactical parasitics and the encrypted common.

This essay examines three critical artists who orchestrate participatory spectacles and experiences as a means of challenging neoliberal financialization, an overarching paradigm and process that is reshaping economics, politics, society and culture. Critical art, I argue, can offer us a particularl...

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Publicado en:Cultural Studies Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 530 - 560
Autor principal: Haiven, Max
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2018
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        Neoliberalism
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