Review of 'Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War' by Ronak K. Kapadia (Duke University Press)

Eric Vazquez

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Review of 'Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War' by Ronak K. Kapadia (Duke University Press)

Eric Vazquez

Lateral, Vol.9(2)

10/01/2020

DOI: 10.25158/L9.2.14

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Abstract

Ronak K. Kapadia’s deeply conversant and well researched 'Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War' brings queer, affect-oriented methodologies to bear on an analysis of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic art. It is these communities after all, Kapadia points out, who undergo increased scrutiny in the United States and Europe after September 11, 2001. According to the author, these diasporic artists engage in an insurgent aesthetic “against empire’s built sensorium,” which is a visual cultural practice that offers an alternative embodied critique of “US empire’s perverse logics of carcerality, security, and war” (10).

Aesthetics

American Studies

9/11

art

comparative ethnic studies

drone

insurgent

queer theory

war

war on terror

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Title: Subtitle: Review of 'Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War' by Ronak K. Kapadia (Duke University Press)
Creators: Eric Vazquez - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Review
Publication Details: Lateral, Vol.9(2)
DOI: 10.25158/L9.2.14
ISSN: 2469-4053
eISSN: 2469-4053
Publisher: Cultural Studies Association
Language: English
Date published: 10/01/2020
Academic Unit: American Studies; Interdisciplinary Programs
Record Identifier: 9984230117902771

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