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Why Only Art Can Save Us - Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Paperback)
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Why Only Art Can Save Us - Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Paperback)
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The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt,
Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory
of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do
confront, which are often used by governments to 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 a
means of elevating consumerism or contemplating beauty but are
points of departure to change the world. Radical artists create
works that disclose and demand active intervention in 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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