Spectatorial Splitting and Transcultural Seeing in the Age of Pandemics
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Berry, Josephine. 2021. Spectatorial Splitting and Transcultural Seeing in the Age of Pandemics. In: Saul Newman and Tihomir Topuzovski, eds. The Posthuman Pandemic. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350239081 [Book Section]
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This article considers the role played by western art in co-constructing the racial regime, a political-symbolic order whose ethical justification of the unsustainable extraction of value from all other (Non)life has itself helped to create the destabilised conditions in which the zoonotic transmission of disease occurs. I argue that the COVID 19 virus compels art institutions, and by extension art itself, to address the spectator as the split subject of universal reason and biological or ‘bare life’ thereby creating a rhizomatic link between different ontological states of humanness. While the virus has in so many ways retraced the differentials of race and class, its yoking together of post-Enlightenment and decolonial ways of seeing and being seen is shaking up the western liberal regime of universality which produces such differentials in the first place. We might see in these tremors the prospect of a more truly transcultural perception that could help to dismantle the bourgeois liberal aesthetic regime and its reliance upon the delusion of universality.
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pandemic, biopower, decolonial theory, zoonotic disease, racial capitalism, art history, COVID-19 |
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08 Apr 2021 13:40 |
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30 Jun 2022 01:26 |
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