NARRATIVES OF CRISIS: REPRESENTING CAPITALIST REALISM PART I: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES


Published: Dec 16, 2023
Keywords:
Capitalist realism
Penelope Petsini
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7276-884X
Abstract



Bringing together researchers, theorists and visual artists, this special issue aims to provide a platform for discussions and research, which consider various as- pects of the visual and its implication to both ideological formations and cultur- al forms related albeit not limited to the notion of crisis. The special issue is, in a way, a continuation of previous, relative- ly recent projects which the guest edi- tor has curated or organised, and most invited contributors have been involved in: The group exhibitions “Capitalist Re- alism: Future Perfect” and “Capitalist Realism: Past Continuous” (2018-19, held at MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Pho- tography and MOMus-Center of Experi- mental Arts, respectively)8, as well as the conference “Representing Capitalist Re- alism: Crisis, Politics and the Visual” (23- 24/11/2018, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography & Rosa Luxemburg Foun- dation). Starting from this point, the issue aims to offer a comparative charting of the crisis discourse by adopting an inclu- sive definition of the term derived from new scholarship and the concept of “cap- italist realism” as introduced by MarkFisher.




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Author Biography
Penelope Petsini, Panteion University

Department of Political Science and History

Principal Investigator, post-doctoral research programme "Censorship in Visual Arts and Film: the Greek experience  from the post-war years to the present" (CIVIL)

Lecturer, MA "Political Science and Contemporary History"

References
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Penelope Petsini (ed.), Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect | Past Continuous (University of Macedonia Press, 2018).
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Alison Shonkwiler, Leigh Claire La Berge (eds.), Reading Capitalist Realism (University of Iowa Press, 2014).
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