Insurgent Aesthetics

Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Bibliographic Data

ID2988948
AuthorsAgatha Beins (Texas Woman's University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume4
Issue2
Pages39
Publication date2020-09-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Encounters A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2468-4414 • E-ISSN: 2468-4414
PublisherLectito Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.20897/femenc/8527
OpenAlexW3083976453
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited5

created a historical, political and social shock wave for the United States, with ripple effects spreading transnationally. Although colonial and imperial violence have been foundational to US nation-building for centuries, there is now a 'before 9/11' and 'after 9/11' that frames juridical practices, lawmaking, economic practices and military tactics. After nearly two decades, this 'forever war' logic has become normalised as 'common sense' in the national imaginary. Detention centres, enhanced interrogation, bypassing Congress to declare war, Guantanamo Bay-all extensions of US settler colonialism and globalised imperialism-are all almost too ordinary to make the news in 2020, as I write this review. Resisting this status quo and taking on post-9/11 modes of governance and violence, Ronak K. Kapadia enacts in Insurgent Aesthetics what he describes artists and their art as doing: creating possibilities to unmask and disrupt the forms of US war-making and nation-state-making that are co-constitutive, that feed into each other, that have disappeared and dispossessed uncounted numbers of black and brown bodies in the United States and abroad.

Aesthetics · Art · Political science · Queer · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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