Ethical materialities in art and moving images
Panse, Silke (2025) Ethical materialities in art and moving images. Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London. ISBN 9781350427143
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In the age of the Anthropocene, when artworks cannot rest upon their separation from the planet, this book questions the ethical and material relations that artists, art and images are entangled in. It examines how the relations between the ethical and the material figure in a context in which a dearth of ethical practice and thought has caused the materialities of the Anthropocene and the climate catastrophe.
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.
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