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The Aesthetic Politics of Unfinished Media: New Media Activism in Brazil
Author(s) -
Stalcup Meg
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12106
Subject(s) - futures contract , transformative learning , politics , new media , visual media , media studies , political activism , sociology , key (lock) , political science , art , visual arts , law , computer science , pedagogy , computer security , financial economics , economics
This article analyzes the role of key visual technologies in contemporary media activism in Brazil. Drawing on a range of media formats and sources, it examines how the aesthetic politics of activists in protests that took place in 2013 opened the way for wider sociopolitical change. The forms and practices of the media activists, it is argued, aimed explicitly at producing transformative politics. New media technologies were remediated as a kind of equipment that could generate new relationships and subjectivities, and thereby access to intentionally undetermined futures.