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This special issue Anti-fascism/Art/Theory was prepared as the second decade of the twenty-first century was drawing to a close. Over a decade after the global financial crisis, we find ourselves confronted with a complex, transnational ideological and material reality where identifiable traits of fascism command fringe and mainstream milieus and where anti-fascist militancy is raising our consciousness about strategies of resistance. Our main aim has been to highlight the need for critical research in the art field that aids, and indeed becomes part of, such resistance. In acknowledging the ongoing debates about how to name the conditions of urgency that necessitate anti-fascism as a material practice but also a way of thinking against a prefigurative counter-revolution and actual supremacy politics, this special issues explores narratives around fascism, prioritising the latter’s relation to capitalism, and addresses totalitarianism, populism, and liberalism as terms often implicated in relevant discussions, while also considering the (dis)continuities of fascism and anti-fascism across the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, including reflections on postmodernism and the Cold War. The articles in this special issue address technology, the art economy, colonial violence and fascist violence, the fraught question of heroism, concerns on how politics enter the art institution, the inconclusive if essential lessons of the avant-gardes, women’s art and anti-fascist consciousness.
Editor(s): Dimitrikaki A, Weeks H
Publication type: Edited Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Third Text
Year: 2019
Volume: 33(3)
Number of Pages: 198
Print publication date: 10/10/2019
Online publication date: 10/10/2019
Acceptance date: 01/05/2019
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Place Published: London
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctte20/33/3#
Notes: Harry Weeks acted as co-editor, alongside Angela Dimitrakaki, of this special issue. This entailed identifying and inviting contributors, working with these contributors through several draft stages, and organising peer review. Harry also contributed an article and co-wrote an extended introduction to the issue. The key themes for the issue were developed through a performative conference organised by the editors in collaboration with BAK, baasis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht in March 2018 (https://www.bakonline.org/program-item/unpacking-aesthetics-and-the-far-right).
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