ISBN: 3902911158 9783902911155

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Page count: 86

The Militant Image Reader brings together eight diverse texts from theorists and artists from Europe and North America that speculate on the relationship of artistic representation and social change today.Has a new protest paradigm emerged out of the framing and circulation of social upheaval and a new terrain of political action? And this paradigm multiple, shaped not only within the dominant media, grasped by political movements and reworked by artistic production? Under which conditions are contemporary images able to be effective and affective, and how do they unfold their meaning and create an impact? In which ways is the possible unfolding entangled simultaneously with the soicial and the political and the artistic? This publication engages with the militant image rather than seeking to define it. The militant image is as multiple as theories of social change and the conditions that must come together in order for change to happen. The militant image - perhaps ephemeral, elusive, whispering, and circulating at the threshold of invisibility - proposes that a new condition of the image seeks to respond to the radically uneven conditions of the present, yet the militant image always aims for future.