Immagine della crisi / Crisi dell'immagine. Critica all'egemonia culturale del realismo e diritto all'opacità in Hydra Decapita (2011), un film saggio di The Otolith Group

Authors

  • Beatrice Ferrara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13129/2281-8138/2014.0.107-131

Keywords:

Hydra Decapita, afrofuturism, capitalist realism, right to opacity, zong affaire

Abstract

This article reflects on the ways in which the relation between crisis and imaginary is articulated in Hydra Decapita, a 2011 essay-film by the British art collective The Otolith Group. Hydra Decapita is an imaged-based reflection arguing for the biopolitical character of the global economic crisis erupted in 2008 and of its representations in the media. By deploying a Cultural Studies-oriented interdisciplinary approach to the artwork – drawing its methodology from visual studies, critical theory and post-colonial studies – the article interrogates the limits and potentialities of Hydra Decapita’s conceptual kernel and aesthetic language.

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Published

2015-12-14

Issue

No. 3 (2014): Spazio, luogo e immaginario

Section

Off Topic

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