Christian Höller : Time Action Vision Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism (English)

Edited by Anne-Julie Raccoursier

ISBN 10: 303764124X / ISBN 13: 9783037641248

Published by JRP | Ringier, 2010

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Z : 15 x 21 cm, 222 pages - This volume brings together 12 conversations conducted by Christian Höller with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field. Interviewing Tariq Ali, Bill Ayers, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Gilroy, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Achille Mbembe, Meaghan Morris, Irit Rogoff, and Ella Shohat, Höller explores Cultural Studies and raises issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Christian Höller : Time Action Vision Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism (English)
• Publisher: JRP | Ringier
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303764124X
• ISBN 13: 9783037641248
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • art theory
  • Interview

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Synopsis

In Time Action Vision, Christian Höller, of the interdisciplinary Critical Curatorial Cybermedia program at the University of Art and Design in Geneva, conducts 12 conversations on the topics of cultural studies, postcolonialism, globalization, activism and cultural participation. His interlocutors are some of the most respected theoreticians and activists working today: groundbreaking Black Atlantic author Paul Gilroy, Birmingham School founder Stuart Hall (Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Postwar Britain), prolific author Tariq Ali (The Clash of Fundamentalisms), former Weather Underground member (and famed Obama associate) Bill Ayers, Marxist geography scholar David Harvey (Social Justice and the City), London-based art theorist and critic Irit Rogoff, Israeli-born scholar of postcolonialism and transnationalism Ella Shohat, South African postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe, French filmmaker (and Godard collaborator) Jean-Pierre Gorin, cultural studies scholar Lawrence Grossberg, Australian cultural studies scholar Meaghan Morris and Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.