Nancy and Visual Culture
Edited by Carrie Giunta, Adrienne Janus
In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy’s work, these 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy’s essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy’s work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the most original and compelling of those contemporary political and ethical philosophers who, like Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, have turned in recent works towards aesthetics and visual art. Nancy’s challenging and inspiring writings on painting, film, photography, video and contemporary visual art have informed the work of scholars of visual culture and aesthetic theory as well as artists, filmmakers and curators.
ContributorsAdrienne Janus • Carrie Giunta • Chris Heppell • Christopher Watkin • Lorna Collins • Martin Crowley • Peter Banki • Phillip Warnell • Robert Luzar
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Image of Visual Culture, Adrienne Janus
1. Cutting and Letting-Be, Martin Crowley
2. Dancing Equality: Image, Imitation and Participation,Christopher Watkin
3. A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance, Return and Relation in Charlie Chaplin, Carrie Giunta
4. The Image: Mimesis and Methexis Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Adrienne Janus
5. On the Threshold: Visual Culture, Invisible Nature, Adrienne Janus
6. Pornosophy: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Pornographic Image, Peter Banki
7. Presentation and Disappearance / Présentation et Disparition, Translated by Adrienne Janus
8. Writing in the Place of the Animal, Phillip Warnell
9. Together at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy, Art and Community, Lorna Collins
10. Turning Around the Written Mark, Opening from a Weight of Thought, Robert Luzar
11. Uncanny Landscapes of Photography: The Partage of Double-exposure After Jean-Luc Nancy, Chris Heppell
Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures.
Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures.
At once mind-blowing and serious, the work of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy stands with the giants of our era. This volume offers a necessary aerial view of his thought on art, with astute essays and an excellent introduction that will orient inhabitants of the art and critical worlds we share and are shattered by.
