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Arts of Address : Being Alive to Language and the World
Author
Title
Arts of Address : Being Alive to Language and the World / Monique Roelofs.
ISBN
9780231550789
Publication
New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource : 27 b&w illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form of address. So are speaking, singing, and painting. Initiating or responding to such calls, we participate in encounters with the world. Widely used yet less often examined in its own right, the notion of address cries out for analysis.Monique Roelofs offers a pathbreaking systematic model of the field of address and puts it to work in the arts, critical theory, and social life. She shows how address props up finely hewn modalities of relationality, agency, and normativity. Address exceeds a one-on-one pairing of cultural productions with their audiences. As ardently energizing tiny slippages and snippets as fueling larger impulses in the society, it activates and reaestheticizes registers of race, gender, class, coloniality, and cosmopolitanism. In readings of writers and artists ranging from Julio Cortázar to Jamaica Kincaid and from Martha Rosler to Pope.L, Roelofs demonstrates the centrality of address to freedom and a critical political aesthetics. Under the banner of a unified concept of address, Hume, Kant, and Foucault strike up conversations with Benjamin, Barthes, Althusser, Fanon, Anzaldúa, and Butler. Drawing on a wide array of artistic and theoretical sources and challenging disciplinary boundaries, the book illuminates address's significance to cultural existence and to our reflexive aesthetic engagement in it. Keeping the reader on the lookout for flash fiction that pops up out of nowhere and for insurgent whisperings that take to the air, Arts of Address explores the aliveness of being alive.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Addressing Address
2. Kant, Hume, and Foucault as Theorists of Address
3. Saying Hello and Goodbye
4. Norms, Forms, Structures, Scenes, and Scripts
5. Address's Key Constituents: Philosophical Views
6. Transforming Aesthetic Relationships
Afterword
Notes
Index
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