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Visual Cultures as World Forming

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Visual Cultures as World Forming
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Adnan Madani
By (author) Jean-Paul Martinon
SeriesSternberg Press / Visual Cultures as...
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 146
Category/GenreThe arts - general issues
Art History
Industrial / commercial art and design
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9783956795374
Audience
General
Illustrations 4 B&W ILLUS.

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 6 June 2023
Publication Country United States

Description

How the world-and the world of visual culture in particular-creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to the rise of globalization, thus highlighting the acceleration of exchanges, the proliferation of information and communication devices, and the multiplication of globally circulated goods and images that characterize the world we live in. Visual Cultures as World Forming takes a different approach by focusing on the taking place of the world, a creative act that knows no economic return. This taking place does not lead to more proliferation of goods, additional financial exchanges, further communications, or an increase in the distribution of visual material, but leads to the continued "worlding" of the world. This approach is predominantly, but not exclusively, inspired by the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. Through a reading of his work and of some of his contemporaries both inside and outside of the Western canon, Madani and Martinon attempt to expose how the world-and the world of visual culture in particular-creates itself and the ways in which each one of us is embodying this creation without economy. Copublished with Goldsmiths, University of London

Author Biography

Adnan Madani is an artist and writer. He is currently Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College. Jean-Paul Martinon is a writer based in London. He is currently Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College.