1st Edition
Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art
By Louise Carrie Wales
Copyright 2022
270 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing.
Louise Carrie Wales presents the work of five contemporary artists – Martha Rosler, Christian Boltanski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and collaborators Noorafshan Mirza and Brad Butler – who challenge our thinking and... Read more
Introduction; 1. Heidegger’s articulation of Care in "The Question Concerning Technology"; 2. Walter Benjamin and the Disruptive Reproduction; 3. Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home: Ethico-Political Collaborative Art Practice; 4. Fashioning Truth from Fiction and Memory: The Essence of Truth Interpreted Through the Work of Boltanski and Wodiczko; 5. Technologized Truth: The Ambiguity of Truth/Non-Truth in the Work of Mirza and Butler; Conclusion
Biography
Louise Carrie Wales, PhD, formerly art department leader at the United Nations International School, currently lives in Connecticut and works at GCDS.
