Stephen Duncombe, Æffect: The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism

As with the philosophers and critics, among artistic activists there is no one universally agreed-upon notion of what artistic activism does.Depending on whom you speak to, artistic activism makes ideas accessible or it surprises and confuses, it reveals realities or it imagines new ones, it creates conversations or facilitates participation, it circumvents barriers to acceptance or creates spaces and places for creativity, it generates affect and empathy or shocks and disrupts, it