Jennifer Ponce de León, Assistant Professor of English at Penn: "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" Book Launch presented by Marcial González, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 4:30pm

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Book Launch

LALS is glad to invite yuo to join  Jennifer Ponce de León, Assistant Professor of English at Penn for the launch of her new book "Another Aesthetics Is Possible, Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" published by Duque University on April 2021.

Discussant: Marcial González

Marcial González is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification (U Michigan, 2009) and co-editor of Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (U Michigan, 2018). 

In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de León shows how experimental practices in the visual, literary, and performing arts have been influenced by and articulated with leftist movements and popular uprisings that have repudiated neoliberal capitalism and its violence. Whether enacting solidarity with Zapatista communities through an alternate reality game or using surrealist street theater to amplify the more radical strands of Argentina's human rights  movement, these artists fuse their praxis with forms of political mobilization from direct-action tactics to economic resistance. Advancing an innovative transnational and transdisciplinary framework of analysis, Ponce de León proposes a materialist understanding of art and politics that brings to the fore the power of aesthetics to both compose and make visible a world beyond capitalism.

Find more about the book here! Also for more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University Press at a 30% discount please visit the book's page and enter the coupon code E21PDELN  during checkout

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