Recuperation (politics)

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co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.[1][2][3] More broadly, it may refer to the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture.[4]

The concept of recuperation was formulated by members of the

dominant discourse. It was originally conceived as the opposite of their concept of détournement, in which images and other cultural artifacts are appropriated from mainstream sources and repurposed with radical intentions.[4]

Examples

Some former means of countercultural expression that have been identified by critics as recuperated (at least in part) are:

ripped jeans, and bondage accessories like dog collars;[7][8] tattoos;[9] street art and participatory art.[10][11]

environmental sustainability see the language of transitions to sustainability being recuperated by those seeking to delay and manage the transition.[12][13]

Pointing to "the erosion of publicly owned media", and capitalist realism, Aaron Bastani wrote of the "recuperation of the internet by capital," saying that the consequences of this persistent corporate media recuperation included a reinforcement of status quo, repression of dissent and artistic expression.[14]

Social justice advocates have identified the popular discourse of

counterrevolutionary contextual framework.[15][16]

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Notes

  1. ^ Kurczynski, Karen Expression as vandalism: Asger Jorn's "Modifications", in RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics No. 53/54 (Spring - Autumn, 2008), pp. 295–6. Quotation:

    the process by which those who control the spectacular culture, embodied most obviously in the mass media, co-opt all revolutionary ideas by publicizing a neutralized version of them, literally turning oppositional tactics into ideology. [] The SI {Situationist International} identified the threat of revolutionary tactics being absorbed and defused as reformist elements. [] The SI pinpointed the increasingly evident problem of capitalist institutions subverting the terms of oppositional movements for their own uses [] recuperation operated on all fronts: in advertising, in academics, in public political discourse, in the marginal discourses of leftist factions, and so on.
  2. ^ Taylor & Francis Group (1993) Textual Practice: Volume 7, p.4. Quotation:

    the negative harmonization attributed to media society. [] revolutionary artists of the late twentieth century are faced with problems of intelligibility, accessibility and recuperation radically different from those of their predecessors. [] current concern with radical writers and media recuperation is the possibility that avant-garde revolutionary art may not be possible, recognizable, or even desirable right now.
  3. ^ Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements, p. 59. Quotation:

    recuperation, namely, that the ruling class could twist every form of protest around to salvage its own ends. [] Détournement [] is the revolutionary counterpart to recuperation, a subversive plagiarism that diverts the spectacle's language and imagery from its intended use.
  4. ^ a b Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements, p. 59. Quotation:

    recuperation, namely, that the ruling class could twist every form of protest around to salvage its own ends. [] Détournement [] is the revolutionary counterpart to recuperation, a subversive plagiarism that diverts the spectacle's language and imagery from its intended use.
  5. ^ Canjuers, Pierre and Debord, Guy, Préliminaires pour une définition de l'unité du programme révolutionnaire, English translation available here: Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program.
  6. S2CID 192057531
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  7. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7
    , retrieved 2020-07-26
  8. ISBN 9781628926057
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  9. ^ Hotson, Elizabeth. "How workplaces are phasing out the tattoo stigma". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  10. ISSN 1476-8070
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  11. ^ TSANGARIS, MICHAEL (July 2018). "Re-adapting radical forms of expression in the digital era -Investigating new aspects of recuperation 1". XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology / RC57 Visual Sociology. Toronto, Canada.
  12. S2CID 158395999
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  13. S2CID 158722529
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  14. ^ Bastani, Aaron. "The Communication Commons: resisting the recuperation of the internet by capital," OpenDemocracy, 25 May 2011.
  15. ^ Thomas, G. Why Some Like The New Jim Crow So Much - A Critique (4!30!12), Vox Union, 2012.
  16. ^ Osel, J. Toward Détournement of The New Jim Crow, or, The Strange Career of The New Jim Crow, International Journal of Radical Critique, 2012.

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