Drawing as an Ethico-political Practice

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ID13100502
AuthorsGünter Gassner (0000-0002-5891-6228, Cardiff University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume7
Issue2
Pages441-454
Publication date2021-06-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2021.1903814
OpenAlexW3167454006
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited12

This essay explores drawing as an ethico-political practice. Taking London as an example, I speculate about a critical and creative, radical and imaginative engagement with speculative urbanization processes at a time when the extreme right is on the rise and the populist far right has become increasingly mainstream. Reflecting on a nonrepresentational drawing approach that responds to distantiated expert eyes by breaking free from their knowledge and pre-defined moral standards of the capitalist city, I explore different lines: lines that commodify the cityscape; lines that cross commodifying categories; lines that creatively produce alternatives; and lines of violent creativity. In so doing, I scrutinize conservative links between a visuality of capital accumulation and fascist urban aesthetics

Aesthetics · Art · Capital (architecture · Cityscape · Economic growth · Economics · Mainstream · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanization · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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