We are pleased to announce that our volume Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images has been published.
The 35% discount code MOVINGIMAGE35 is valid until July 1st:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethical-materialities-in-art-and-moving-images-9781350427143
Endorsements:
“This wonderfully diverse volume shows how the zone of ethics is always a zone of jagged, not flat, ontologies. It is a primer for what it means to take ethics—and the ethics of art—seriously.”
Cary Wolfe, Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, USA, and author of What is Posthumanism? (2009) and Art and Posthumanism (2022)
“Applying Spinoza’s ethics to film and painting, this groundbreaking anthology deconstructs differences between the human and non-human, material and nonmaterial to create new connections between ethical thought and practice.”
Colin Gardner, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and co-editor of Deleuze and the Animal (2017) and Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari (2018)
“Are you curious how materialities and ethics relate to each other when it comes to artists, audiovisual culture, bio- or media-diversity, and philosophy? Would you like to follow many materials and their mutable natures in the Anthropocene? Then this excellent book is for you!”
Petra Lange-Berndt, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Hamburg, Germany, and editor of Materiality (2015)
“A powerful and timely retort to the rejection of ethics in recent philosophy and art theory. With its lively range of perspectives and readings of art works, the book moves beyond reductive theoretical framings of matter and meaning to address some of the most pressing political and ethical questions in a time of mass extinction.”
Ros Gray, Reader and Co-Director, Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Description:
In the age of the so-called Anthropocene, when artworks cannot rest upon their separation from the planet, Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images questions the ethical and material relations that artists, art and images are entangled in. Ethics are generally regarded as constituted through immaterial relations guided by moral imperatives. By contrast, this volume argues that the singular ethicalities that are manifested in a work cannot be captured by abstract ethics. The explorations of the ethical here are not prescriptive, but creative. Through artistic and philosophical thought and practice, the contributions move beyond the division between an active practice of ethics and a contemplative theory of aesthetics. Across three sections, practitioners and theorists consider the singular relations between materials and ethics in biodiverse environments. They suggest that to bring out the ethical dimensions of the material and the material dimension of the ethical—without identifying one with the other—is a responsibility of art and images.
