List of Illustrations viiAcknowledgements ixNotes on Contributors x Introduction 1Bettina Papenburg and Marta ZarzyckaPART I ENCOUNTERING (AESTH) ETHICS1 Trauma, Time and Painting: Bracha Ettinger and the Matrixial Aesthetic 21Griselda Pollock2 Showing Sounds: Listening to War Photographs 42Marta Zarzycka3 Another Regard 54Erin ManningPART II AFFECTIVE IMAGERY4 Uneasy Bodies: Affect, Embodies Perception and Contemporary Fashion Photography 73Eugenie Shinkle5 Force of Affects, Weight of Histories in Love is a Treasure 89Ann Koivunen6 Atmospheric Affects 102Jill BennettPART III SENTIENT BODIES7. The Dream Olfactory: On Making Scents of Cinema 121Vivian Sobchak8. Thinking Multisensory Culture 144Laura U. Marks9. Grotesque Sensations; Carnivalising the Sensorium in the Art of Wangechi Mutu 158Bettina PapenburgPART IV STRATEGIES OF DISRUPTION10. Tactile Visions: From Embodies to Encoded Love 175Martine Beugnet11. Art as a Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect 198Paricia Pisters12. Shattered Images and Desiring Matter 214A Diaologue between Hito Steyerl and Domitilla Olivieri13. Mucosal Monsters 226Patricia MacCormackName Index 238Subject Index 240.
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Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation, it provides a fresh look at the meeting point between the politics of representation and the politics of perception, through the prismatic lens of feminist theory. Acclaimed scholars, including Griselda Pollock, Vivian Sobchack, Laura Marks, Erin Manning, Jill Bennett, and Martine Beugnet, analyse seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, video, film and multimedia art. They explore a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image, challenging also the primacy of vision.