Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art

Louise Carrie Wales

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Routledge
27 May 2024

The Arts: General & Reference

Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics

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 compel a dramatic re-positioning of social norms and hidden beliefs. The through-line is rooted in Heidegger’s question posed at the conclusion of his technology essay as understood through artworks that provides a counter to enframing while using increasingly sophisticated technological methods. The themes are political in nature and continue to have profound resonance in today’s geopolitical climate.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, aesthetics, philosophy, and visual culture.

By: Louise Carrie Wales
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032003870
ISBN 10: 1032003871
Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

"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"

Louise Carrie Wales, PhD, formerly art department leader at the United Nations International School, currently lives in Connecticut and works at GCDS.