Intellect is delighted to announce our new title:
Vanishing Points
Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience
By Natasha Chuk
Deftly deploying Jaques Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film, and emerging media. Addressing works ranging from Robert Rauschenberg to Six Feet Under, Natasha Chuk emphasises the notion that art is an accident, an event, which registers numerous overlapping, contradictory orientations, or vanishing points, between its own components and the viewers' perspective - generating the power to create unexperienced experiences. This volume will be a must read for anyone interested in contemporary art and its intersection with philosophy.
Chapters include: 'Raptures: Negotiation in the Created Object', 'Art and the Unexperienced Experience', 'Memorialization and Objects of the Dead', 'The Apparatus and the Unfixed Vanishing Point', 'Presence, Absence, and Play in the Hyperreal spaces of Computation', 'Traces of Absence in Photography: Dina Kanto and Alec Soth', 'The Cost of Burying the Dead: Six Feet Under' and 'Resisting Arrest: the Elusive Vanishing Point'.
Natasha Chuk is a scholar of media objects, technology, and philosophy, as well as an independent curator.
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http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5171/
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