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008			200706s2020 ncu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2019054723
020			_a9781478012320
020			_z9781478091660
020			_z9781478009702
020			_z9781478008842
035			_a(OCoLC)1164825665
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050	0	4	_aNX180.P64 _bF57 2020
082	0		_a700.1/03 _223
100	1		_aFisher, Anna Watkins, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Play in the System : _bThe Art of Parasitical Resistance / _cAnna Watkins Fisher.
264		1	_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2020.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2020
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (304 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aUser be used : leveraging the coercive hospitality of corporate platforms -- An opening in the structure : Núria Güell and Kenneth Pietrobono's legal loopholes -- Hangers-on : Chris Kraus' parasitical feminism -- A seat at the table : feminist art's institutional absorption, millennial precarity, and ambivalent legacies -- Coda. It's not you, it's me : Roisin Byrne and the parasite's shifting ethics and politics.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"In THE PLAY IN THE SYSTEM Anna Watkins Fisher asks what kind of room for maneuver remains in a system from which there appears to be no way out. Arguing that traditional leftist modes of opposition and refusal, which presuppose an autonomous or emancipatory subject, have proven ill-adapted to today's murky political terrain, Fisher focuses on new media artists and activists who embrace what she calls parasitism. Fisher defines parasitism as a tactical mode through which precarious subjects (at least, those with enough capital to get a foot in the door) can leverage the minor advantages of appearing familiar and non-threatening to those who hold power over them. Using powerful entities' pretense of benevolence to gain access, parasitical artists are then (like Trojan horses) able to disrupt the smooth functioning of these entities. In acknowledging our inevitable entanglement in the oppressive systems and institutions we most need to resist, Fisher's parasites create space to relinquish investments in purity and weaponize complicity. The first half of the book focuses on works that target large corporations-major "hosts"-whose appropriation of transparency and facilitation masks their proprietary gatekeeping and monetization of public goods. But Fisher's book does not only laud parasitical activists like the collective Ubermorgen, whose Amazon Noir project exploited Amazon's "search inside the book" feature to produce open access versions of over 3,000 books. The book's second half considers what happens when the boundary between host and parasite becomes blurrier, grappling with the more messy contradictions posed by parasitical works that share a genealogy with feminist performance art. Here, works like Chris Kraus' I Love Dick and Sophie Calle's Take Care of Yourself play on the intimacy of the author/artist's relationship with a privileged man. In the book's coda, Fisher considers her own parasitic relationship with feminist performance artist Roisin Byrne, reflecting on the shifting parasitical relationships between artists and critics. This book will be of interest to readers in media studies, especially new media studies, as well as those in contemporary art and performance studies, feminist studies, political and social theory, and cultural studies, as well as those interested in neoliberalism and anti-capitalist activism"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aArts, Modern _y21st century.
650		0	_aPolitics and culture.
650		0	_aArtists and community.
650		0	_aFeminism in art.
650		0	_aFeminism and the arts.
650		0	_aArtists _xPolitical activity.
650		0	_aArts and society _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aArts _xPolitical aspects _xHistory _y21st century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
776	1	8	_iOnline version: _aFisher, Anna Watkins. _tThe play in the system. _dDurham : Duke University Press, 2020. _z9781478012320 _w(DLC) 2019054724
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/77989/
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