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Truth

Truth

Aesthetic Politics

by Sean Cubitt
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/09/2023

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The neo-right poisoned the wells of common truth by pronouncing their unshakeable faith in truths only they believe. This book argues that the only truths possible in the 21st century are mobile, inventive practices involving everything fascist models of communication exclude: technologies, nature, and leftover humanity. Tracing histories of their separation, Truth analyzes the struggle between information systems and the sensory worlds they exclude, not least the ancestral wisdom that the West has imprisoned in its technologies. Truth opposes the cybernetic division of the world between subjects and objects, signals and noise. There can be no return to some primal Eden: these divisions, which have fundamentally reorganized the cultural, economic, technical and ecological worlds they inherited, are the historical conditions we must confront. Drawing on a wide range of aesthetic practices from literature, film, art, music, workplace media, scientific instruments, and animal displays, Truth seeks out ways to create a new commons and a decolonial politics grounded in aesthetic properties of creativity, senses and perception that can no longer be restricted to humans alone.
ISBN:
9781913380649
9781913380649
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
208.28x142.24x30.48mm
Weight:
0.47kg

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