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Art and Posthumanism - Essays, Encounters, Conversations (Hardcover)
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Art and Posthumanism - Essays, Encounters, Conversations (Hardcover)
Series: Art After Nature
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A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy
relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the
"bio" of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the
question of "life" that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their
shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the
reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of
the relationship between the human and the planet upside down.
Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks-from Sue Coe's
illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac's bioart
to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video
installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others-examining how
posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists'
engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological
and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics,
Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our
attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions
of "life" and the "living" amid ecological catastrophe. One of the
foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy
out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a
posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual
underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political
commitments.
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