Michabo Sustainable Harmony
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
MONEY ON THE LEFT CONFERENCE – MMN HUMANITES , Aesthetics and Abstraction
April 2018
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT:
Rachel Cox – “Not So-OK KO: Neoliberal Anxieties in Current Televised Animation”
Modern monetary theory, in addition to providing a different approach to understanding economics, explicitly critiques the more traditional, neoliberal worldview.
Both views come with different aesthetic implications, as explored in modern monetary aesthetic theory.
In general, because neoliberalism has an anxious relationship of denial towards abstraction, aesthetic abstraction is largely suppressed.
However, this relationship is further complicated in the medium of children’s animation, wherein abstraction is built into the constructed, animated worlds.
In this talk, I will look at one of the ways that abstraction is simultaneously embraced (in the bodies of the characters) and aggressively suppressed (in the worlds that the cartoons take place) in contemporary televised children’s cartoons.
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