Common Image
Towards a Larger Than Human Communism
Western humanism has established a reifying and predatory relation to the world. While its collateral visual regime, the perspectival image, is still saturating our screens, this relation has reached a dead end. Rather than desperately turning towards transhumanism and geoengineering, we need to readjust our position within community Earth. Facing this predicament, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image – understood as a multisensory perception across species; and common ethics – a comportment that transcends species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger than human communism.
Endorsements
»Through a multilingual, transtemporal process of ›looking back, looking elsewhere‹, Common Image collects from many cultures and historical moments the materials for creating a more just and more communal future. [...] A timely and important book.« (Jeffrey J Cohen, author of Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman, 2015 and co-author of Earth (Object Lessons), 2017)»Forceful and broad in scope, the book maps the possibility of an image that comes after the image through myths, magic, poetry, aesthesis, but also postcolonialism, community, ecology, multispecies, and many other dimensions. Can an image exist as a common relation? The book creates a concept and a figure ─ of a new, common image, as an ethical and aesthetic way of living.« (Olga Goriunova, author of »Fermentation« for More Posthuman Glossary, 2022 and (with Matthew Fuller) of Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility, 2019)
»Although in recent reinterpretations of communism the emphasis has shifted to the notion of the common, very little work has been done on the possibility of extending communism to other-than-human modes of existence. In Common Image, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie tackle this challenge with admirable thoroughness and theoretical breadth, while keeping an eye on the mediations ─ above all, images, which are not reducible to visuality ─ that render a larger than human communism possible.« (Michael Marder, author of Green Mass, 2021, Dump Philosophy, 2020, and Plant-Thinking, 2013)
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Note to the Reader
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Introduction
Seiten 11 - 16 -
Chapter 1 / Stone
Seiten 17 - 28 -
Chapter 2 / Magic
Seiten 29 - 36 -
Chapter 3 / Matter
Seiten 37 - 54 -
Chapter 4 / Ocean
Seiten 55 - 64 -
Chapter 5 / Points of View
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Chapter 6 / The Time of the Myth
Seiten 81 - 92 -
Chapter 7 / From Myth to Poetry
Seiten 93 - 102 -
Chapter 8 / Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$
Seiten 103 - 116 -
Chapter 9 / Travelling to the Warlpiri Country
Seiten 117 - 122 -
Coda / Common Image
Seiten 123 - 132 -
Appendix
List of Illustrations
Seiten 135 - 136 -
Bibliography
Seiten 137 - 152 -
Detailed Table of Contents
Seiten 153 - 156
9 December 2021, 156 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5939-9
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