"Beyond the "NGO Aesthetic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2924656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Bajorek (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01642472-3467990 |
| OpenAlex | W2432146125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article examines two projects by artists living and working in Nairobi. It asks questions about how these artists are visualizing or otherwise materializing in their work the specificity of their contemporary geopolitical and geocultural situation in relation to capitalism. How might this specificity allow these artists to elucidate aspects of contemporary capitalism's cultural logic that are all too often invisible to people living in other parts of the world? How might it allow them to reframe or gain new traction on what Fredric Jameson once called a "radical cultural politics," an operation that presupposes, in much Marxist and post-Marxist analysis, an ability to represent one's location within the system of contemporary capitalism
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Cognitive reframing · Geopolitics · Late capitalism · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |