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Why Only Art Can Save Us - Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Hardcover)
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Why Only Art Can Save Us - Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Hardcover)
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The state of emergency, thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter
Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben have argued, is at the heart of any
theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises we do
confront, which are often how governments legitimize themselves,
but the ones that political realism stops us from recognizing as
emergencies, from widespread surveillance to climate change to the
systemic shocks of neoliberalism. We need a way of disrupting the
existing order that can energize radical democratic action rather
than reinforcing the status quo. In this provocative book, Santiago
Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the
absence of emergency, only contemporary art's capacity to alter
reality can save us. Why Only Art Can Save Us advances a new
aesthetics centered on the nature of the emergency that
characterizes the twenty-first century. Zabala draws on Martin
Heidegger's distinction between works of art that rescue us from
emergency and those that are rescuers into emergency. The former
are a means of cultural politics, conservers of the status quo that
conceal emergencies; the latter are disruptive events that thrust
us into emergencies. Building on Arthur Danto, Jacques Ranciere,
and Gianni Vattimo, who made aesthetics more responsive to
contemporary art, Zabala argues that works of art are not simply
for an elevated consumerism or the contemplation of beauty but are
points of departure to change the world. Radical artists create
works that disclose and demand active intervention into ongoing
crises. Interpreting works of art that aim to propel us into absent
emergencies, Zabala shows how art's ability to create new realities
is fundamental to the politics of radical democracy in the state of
emergency that is the present.
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