Description: Arts of Address : Being Alive to Language and the World, Paperback by Roelofs, Monique, ISBN 0231194374, ISBN-13 9780231194372, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 Cortzar to Jamaica Kincaid and from Martha Rosler to , 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, Anzalda, and Butler. Drawing on a wide array of artistic and theoretical sources and challenging disciplinary boundaries, th 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.
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Book Title: Arts of Address : Being Alive to Language and the World
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Arts of Address : Being Alive to Language and the World
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Communication Studies, Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Semiotics & Theory
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Monique Roelofs
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Ser.
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
