MUTATING ECOLOGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART (Libro en papel)

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Sinopsis

What role might art exert in light of the challenges posed by climatechange, resource depletion, and the diverse political and culturalcrises our societies face in the twenty-first century? The hypothesisguiding this book is born of Félix Guattari's claim that inconfronting the multi-faceted problems of our global political economy we need to develop a more complex analysis of nature, culture andtechnology, shifting from catastrophic, end-of-the world narratives to productive, generative, trans-species alliances for the sake of thesustainability of life on the planet. Because capitalism is no longerunderstood merely as a mode of production but as a system ofsemiotization, homogenization, and of transmission of forms of powerover goods, labour and individuals, only the emergence of otherrelational subjective formations would be able to counteract thefixation of desire towards capital and its diverse crystallizations of power. New social practices, new aesthetic practices and newpractices of the self in relation to the other are summoned toundertake an ethical-political reinvention of life. As Guattariargues, it is about reappropiating universes of value and paving theway for the emergence of processes of singularization involving amutating subjectivity, a mutating socius, and a mutating environment.This book is engaged in thinking about the conjunction of theecological turn in contemporary art and the attention given to matterin recent humanist scholarship as a way of exploring how newconfigurations of the world suggest new ways of being and acting inthat world. Contributors explore the means by which art can act as anexistential catalysist, providing ways of changing our modes ofrelation beyond traditional modes of representation and, in doing so,instituting transformation.