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Viscous Expectations:

Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene

ISBN-13: 9780988517066
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Cara Judea Alhadeff
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Local release date: 03/05/2013
Format: Paperback 522 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Philosophy [HP]

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Orchestrating text and color photography through the lens of vulnerability, Cara Judea Alhadeff explores embodied democracy as the intersection of technology, aesthetics, eroticism, and ethnicity. She demonstrates the potential for social resistance and a rhizomatic reconceptualization of community rooted in difference—and a socio-erotic ethic of ambiguity that disrupts codified normalcy. Within the context of global corporatocracy, international development, the pharma-addictive health industry, petroleum-parenting, and arts-as-entertainment, she scrutinizes the emancipatory possibilities of social ecology, post-humanism, and the pedagogy of trauma. Confronting hegemonies of convenience culture, she lays the groundwork for a reticulated citizenry that requires theory-becoming-practice. Alhadeff’s primary text and footnotes become parallel narratives, reflecting their intermedial content. As she integrates the personal and theoretical with the visual and textual, she mobilizes a comprehensive exploration of our bodies as contingent modes of relation. She cites philosophers and artists from Spinoza to Audre Lorde, Louise Bourgeois, and Édouard Glissant, who have explored collaborative and uncanny conditions of becoming vulnerable. In the context of multiple constituencies, creativity becomes a political imperative in which cognitive and somatic risk-taking gives voice to social justice.

“Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene, by Cara Judea Alhadeff, is exactly what an ‘art book’ should be. It offers a unique and singular worldview, posing more questions than answers, but advancing lines of thought and arguments into uncomfortable territory in the form of photos and text to create a further understanding of ourselves. The first impressions of Alhadeff’s work always offer uncertain footing, causing her audience to find their own balance of previously conceived notions and context; they are challenged with the new information offered in Alhadeff’s sensual, beautiful, and often disturbing pictures. This is important work by an artist who is unflinching with her camera and pen.”

—Robert Mailer Anderson, author of Boonville and producer of Pig Hunt

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Viscous Expectations:

Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene