The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism
Author:   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498564366


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   17 December 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781498564366


ISBN 10:   1498564364
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   17 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Islamic Futurism? A Study in Political Aesthetics Chapter 1: ISIS and Futurism: An Impossible Comparison? Chapter 2: The Futurist Aesthetics of ISIS Chapter 3: From Cyberpunk back to Futurism: The Trajectory of ISIS Chapter 4: Fascism, ISIS, and Futurism Chapter 5: Islam Chapter 6: Terrorism and Cyberpunk Chapter 7: The Real Machine vs. the Virtual Machine Conclusion: Artificial Optimism Then and Today Epilogue

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Joyfully tearing down the compartment walls that conventionally separate fascist studies from research into jihadism, and gleefully crossing the boundaries between aesthetics and politics, Botz-Bornstein challenges, or rather provokes, the reader to reconfigure the space that fascist and terrorist destructiveness occupy in the contemporary media, party-political and historical imaginations. Not afraid to alienate experts in both fields of study, his book creates new connections and suggests fresh juxtapositions with futurist abandon. Though the ludic may prevail over the academic, The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism exposes the veins of a perversely politicized brand of modernism that throb just under the surface of two ideologies that claim to be rooted in an imperial or religious tradition, and which expresses itself in deliberately staged acts of spectacularly aestheticized destruction. -- Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University


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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is associate professor of philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology.

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