Reasons to Kill a Poet

Name: Reasons to Kill a Poet
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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Articolo

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COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI

Sezione

Open Access

Titolo

Reasons to Kill a Poet

Autori

Dalida Maria Benfield, Christopher Bratton

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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04-2021

Doi

10.26350/001200_000121

Issn

0392-8667 (stampa) | 1827-7969 (digitale)

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Conceived as a word/image essay, “Reasons to Kill a Poet” takes a critical look at how the term creativity is being mobilized as a key concept of neoliberalism, functioning to repress forms of
oppositional creativity through structures of discursive, and embodied, policing and punishment. At the same time, counter-hegemonic creativity persists, and the essay foregrounds particular exemplary works by writers, including Chilean musician and poet Victor Jara, “Estadio Chile” (1973); US-based Black journalist, writer and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, “Teetering on the Brink: Between Life and Death” (1991); and Ugandan queer activist, researcher, and poet Stella Nyanzi, No Roses from My Mouth (2020). These writings are juxtaposed with visual images to create a third space between word and image, and elicit historical resonances on such questions as: how are their creativities conceived, posited and enacted as anti-neo-liberal formations? What threat does their work pose to the forms of authoritarian impunity that characterize the neo-liberal present? What is the relationship between social critique and arts research?

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keywords

Neo-liberalism; creativity; resistance; poetry; aesthetics.

Biografia degli autori

Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston, MA, US ‒ dmbenfield@centerartsdesign.org.
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland – christopher.bratton@aalto.fi.

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