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Intermedialities - Philosophy, Arts, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Intermedialities - Philosophy, Arts, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of
scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a
comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research
called "intermedialities." The concept of intermedialities stresses
the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on
social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories,
avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism,
and political theory. The "intermedial" approach to social
relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the
epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter
(being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new
modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the
critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and
the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new
approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not
only engagements between already constituted positions but even
more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and
decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the
resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the
leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and
ethical analysis of the "in-between" enables a conception of
community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with
others rather than on an identification with a shared identity.
Investigations of "in-betweenness," both as medium specific and
between heterogeneous "sites" of inquiry, range here from
philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the
political circulation of money and power to the operation of new
technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment
in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance
between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and
culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval
forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these com
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