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Ways of seeing in the neoliberal state : a controversial play and its contexts

Title
Ways of seeing in the neoliberal state : a controversial play and its contexts / Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad.
Author
Grønstad, Asbjørn
Publication
  • Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Description
ix, 116 pages; 21 cm
Summary
This book focuses on the theme of counter-surveillance in art through a multi-faceted engagement with the highly controversial Norwegian play Ways of Seeing. Denounced by the prime minister and subject to a police investigation, the play gained notoriety when it featured footage showing the homes of the countrys financial and political elite as part of its scenography. The book provides a thorough consideration of the works reception context before elucidating its relation to the politics of neoliberalism. What is foregrounded in this analysis are, first, the use of an aesthetics of sousveillance to visualize the material infrastructure of racism and right-wing populism, second, the tangled interrelations of art and law, third, questions of censorship and artistic freedom, and fourth, the promotion of an alternative mode of political governance grounded in feminism and ecological awareness through the example of the Rojava experiment.
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Electronic surveillance in art
  • Electronic surveillance > Social aspects
  • Norwegian drama > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Politics in art
  • Neoliberalism in popular culture
  • Norwegian drama
  • Politics and government
  • Norway > Politics and government > 21st century
  • Norway
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: The public confronts other ways of seeing -- 2. New Ways of Seeing: The Judicial -- 3. Censorship and Free Speech: The Aesthetic -- 4. Neoliberalism and Rojava: The Political.
Call Number
MWEG (Norway) 22-450
ISBN
  • 9783030859831
  • 3030859835
OCLC
1272873933
Author
Grønstad, Asbjørn, author.
Title
Ways of seeing in the neoliberal state : a controversial play and its contexts / Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad.
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Other Form:
Electronic version: Grønstad, Asbjørn. Ways of seeing in the neoliberal state. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021] 9783030859848 (OCoLC)1276795197
Research Call Number
MWEG (Norway) 22-450
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