The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead Fish - Softcover

Elliot C. Mason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782798277 ISBN 13: 9781782798279

Publisher: Zer0 Books, 2022

Synopsis

Set on Idan Hayosh’s peculiar Instagram page of women holding dead fish, The Instagram Archipelago is a conversation with contemporary culture’s logics of gender and race. Working through recent thinking in Black studies and Hayosh’s satirical images, Elliot C. Mason presents the aesthetics of capitalism as a sea that makes everything the same, turning the world into a single form. The Instagram Archipelago brings radical antiracist and feminist scholarship to a general audience, applying a model of thinking beyond gender and race to the strange world of online fishing photos. This funny and fascinating book moves past the liberal celebration of gender and race, towards a tiny island of resistance in a growing archipelago.

About this title

About the Author

Elliot C. Mason is a poet, essayist, and PhD candidate at Uppsala University. He is the author of two collections of poetry - Materials for Building a City, and City Embers - and one academic book - Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture. His essays, poems, and translations are widely published, and his plays have been performed at many theatres. He lives with his partner near Uppsala, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zer0 Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782798277
• ISBN 13: 9781782798279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216