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by Carrie Giunta (Editor), Adrienne Janus (Editor)
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.
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Add endorsement Author approved The first critical appraisal of Jean-Luc Nancy's immense contribution to contemporary 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. In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy's work, this collection reanimates 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. Carrie Giunta is a Visiting Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Adrienne Janus is lecturer in English, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.
Author Biography
Carrie Giunta is a freelance writer and visiting research fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Giunta's writing has been published in Radical Philosophy, teleSUR English and The Directory of World Cinema (Intellect Books). Her recent publications include a chapter entitled "Community in Fragments: Reading Relation in the Fragments of Heraclitus" in the edited collection Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges (Rowman & Littlefield).
Adrienne Janus is Maitre de Conferences at the Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, where she works across the areas of theatre and performance studies, English and Comparative Literature.
