Middle East and other futurisms
Imaginary Temporalities in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5843532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jussi Parikka (0000-0002-2248-6377, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-58 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Modern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0486-3720 • E-ISSN: 1473-5784 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14735784.2017.1410439 |
| OpenAlex | W2771913139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article focuses on recent contemporary art of Gulf Futurism and Arab Futurism with a specific geographical focus on the Near and Middle East. Still only occasionally addressed and analysed in contemporary academic discussions, these art discourses and practices can be understood as particular forms of counterfuturisms and cultural politics of imaginary times; they continue the earlier work of Afrofuturism in using an aesthetic repertoire to complicate normalised notions of time and technology but in an alternative geopolitical context. Some of the analysed works such as Larissa Sansour's films outline political questions about territories and architectures of control but these are also other contexts that address how experience of time is being infrastructured in material media culture. The article analyses these post-colonial artistic practices in dialogue with contemporary theoretical debate about cultural politics of time including the discourses about cancellation of future (Berardi) as well as the idea of counterfuturisms as a form of audiovisual practice
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Contemporary art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Literature · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Repertoire · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · The Imaginary · Visual arts · Visual culture · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
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Counter Aesthetics of Arabfuturism
Palestine and the Aesthetics of the Future Impossible
Palestine 2048 in Inertia
The racial politics of smart urbanism
Anti‐ Astrotropik — Outer Space, Technology and Resistance in the Tropics
Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction
Refractions of a Grim Future
Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)
Thinking the future otherwise
Peripheral Visions of Alternative Futures
Ontopower
The Right to Look
Forensic Architecture
Futures Past
Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History
Media Archaeology. Approaches, Applications, and Implications
What Is Media Archaeology
Premediation
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Formations of the Secular
Extrastatecraft
Afrofuturisme et devenir-nègre du monde
New History in France
Further Considerations of Afrofuturism
| Citations per year | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |