Assistant Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21
Office Information:
3640 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Digital studies, media theory, performance studies, contemporary art, and visual culture, feminist and queer studies, critical theory
phone: 734-615-2936
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Modern Culture and Media, Brown UniversityHighlighted Work and Publications
The Play in the System
Anna Watkins Fisher
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect subversion from within hegemonic structures. Fisher tracks the ways in which artists on the margins—from hacker collectives like Ubermorgen to feminist writers and performers like Chris Kraus—have willfully abandoned the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anticapitalism and feminism. Space for resistance is found ...
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