Nicholas Gamso
Biographic Data
| ID | 764515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Gamso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamso |
| SIGNATURE | GAMSO N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Infrastructure Aesthetics and the Crisis of Migrancy
Research Article| March 01 2017 Infrastructure Aesthetics and the Crisis of Migrancy Nicholas Gamso Nicholas Gamso NICHOLAS GAMSO teaches cultural studies and environmental history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2017) 44 (5): 10–14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2017.44.5.10 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Pee…
Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question
This article addresses a crucial dimension of urban development: the recruitment of minority artists in the gentrification of space. The argument is that the production and exploitation of racial difference have underwritten the creative economy’s spurious claims to inclusion and diversity. Difference thus underwrites ideologies of developmental growth, proving a means of extracting monetary value and consolidating political power. The argument i…
Illiberal Promises
Mimi Thi Nguyen's The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.Lisa Marie Cacho's Social Death: Racialized Rightiessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected. New York: New York University Press, 2012.As of this writing, a new immigration bill promising undocumented migrants a pathway to citizenship has made its way through key votes in both houses of the U.S. Congress, its success enabled …
Three Works on the Politics and Possibilities of Hip-Hop Now
This essay considers the political efficacy of hip-hop, as genre and as lifestyle, three decades after it emerged from the South Bronx and as its artists and cultural critics variously mourn, endure, and embrace its institutionalization. I look at three recent critical works on hip-hop: Paul Gilroy's 2011 Darker than Blue, which sees in the genre empty posturing and codes of conspicuous consumption; the 2012 edition of Murray Forman and Mark Anth…
Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question
This article addresses a crucial dimension of urban development: the recruitment of minority artists in the gentrification of space. The argument is that the production and exploitation of racial difference have underwritten the creative economy’s spurious claims to inclusion and diversity. Difference thus underwrites ideologies of developmental growth, proving a means of extracting monetary value and consolidating political power. The argument i…
Three Works on the Politics and Possibilities of Hip-Hop Now
This essay considers the political efficacy of hip-hop, as genre and as lifestyle, three decades after it emerged from the South Bronx and as its artists and cultural critics variously mourn, endure, and embrace its institutionalization. I look at three recent critical works on hip-hop: Paul Gilroy's 2011 Darker than Blue, which sees in the genre empty posturing and codes of conspicuous consumption; the 2012 edition of Murray Forman and Mark Anth…
Illiberal Promises
Mimi Thi Nguyen's The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.Lisa Marie Cacho's Social Death: Racialized Rightiessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected. New York: New York University Press, 2012.As of this writing, a new immigration bill promising undocumented migrants a pathway to citizenship has made its way through key votes in both houses of the U.S. Congress, its success enabled …
Infrastructure Aesthetics and the Crisis of Migrancy
Research Article| March 01 2017 Infrastructure Aesthetics and the Crisis of Migrancy Nicholas Gamso Nicholas Gamso NICHOLAS GAMSO teaches cultural studies and environmental history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2017) 44 (5): 10–14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2017.44.5.10 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Pee…
Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question
This article addresses a crucial dimension of urban development: the recruitment of minority artists in the gentrification of space. The argument is that the production and exploitation of racial difference have underwritten the creative economy’s spurious claims to inclusion and diversity. Difference thus underwrites ideologies of developmental growth, proving a means of extracting monetary value and consolidating political power. The argument i…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acknowledgement (1 works) · Amnesty (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works)