ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a set of assemblages that have become strongly attached to public feminisms in the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Introducing the concept of the 'protest assemblage', the chapter explores the creative and critical role of images, bodies, technologies and affects when imagining resistance and refusal in digital and offline contexts. The chapter also explores the critical role of remix culture – referring to a set of creative and communicative practices that modify existing cultural materials in order to create new texts – in the development and spread of highly iterative protest assemblages. Remix culture has been described as 'one of the most popular methods of media activism' today. On 22 July 2014, Time magazine declared that Beyonce had just posted 'the ultimate feminist photo' on the photo-sharing site Instagram.
