Common Image
Towards a Larger Than Human Communism
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Beschreibung
A notion of the common image, understood as a multisensory perception across species, and common ethics that transcend species-bound ways of living.
Western humanism has established a reifying and predatory relation to the world. While its collateral visual regime, the perspectival image, is still saturating our screens, this relation has reached a dead end. Rather than desperately turning towards transhumanism and geoengineering, we need to readjust our position within community Earth. Facing this predicament, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image – understood as a multisensory perception across species; and common ethics – a comportment that transcends species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger than human communism.
Autor*in
Ingrid Hoelzl
Themen in »Common Image«
Image Theory Image Theory Environmental Theory Environmental Theory Counter-Anthropology Counter-Anthropology Feminist Materialism Feminist Materialism Ecofeminism Ecofeminism Image Image Art Art Nature
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»Ein Buch, das Lust auf Verantwortung macht und Hoffnung in Bezug auf eine fordernde Gegenwart gibt.«
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Besprochen in:https://generalhumanity.org, 01.12.2021
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»Through a multilingual, transtemporal process of ›looking back, looking elsewhere,‹ »Common Image« collects from many cultures and historical moments the materials for creating a more just and more communal future. [...] A timely and important book.«
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»Forceful and broad in scope, the book maps the possibility of an image that comes after the image through myths, magic, poetry, aesthesis, but also postcolonialism, community, ecology, multispecies, and many other dimensions. Can an image exist as a common relation? The book creates a concept and a figure – of a new, common image, as an ethical and aesthetic way of living.«
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»Although in recent reinterpretations of communism the emphasis has shifted to the notion of the common, very little work has been done on the possibility of extending communism to other-than-human modes of existence. In ›Common Image‹, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie tackle this challenge with admirable thoroughness and theoretical breadth, while keeping an eye on the mediations – above all, images, which are not reducible to visuality – that render a larger than human communism possible.«
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