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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Ontological turns within the visual arts

ontic violence and the politics of anticipation

Martin Thomassen

pp. 205-228

Abstract

This chapter enters into critical engagement with critics who claim that a stronger focus on alterity and difference lacks the ability to establish kinship relations on a scale that matters in a world in which too many people are experiencing ontological frailty on a limited planet due to heavy anthropogenic impact. Focusing on global contemporary exhibition practices within the visual arts, the chapter argues that these practices are radical relational practices anticipating new ways to recognize and capacitate difference, none of which fits exactly inside the same eternal and universal patterns of social life. Going beyond the trope of representation, the exhibition practices examined in this chapter destabilize incorporated notions of human universality while devouring the western ontological mindset and its archeology.

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Published in:

Enge Bertelsen Bjørn, Bendixsen Synnve (2016) Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 205-228

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_9

Full citation:

Thomassen Martin (2016) „Ontological turns within the visual arts: ontic violence and the politics of anticipation“, In: B. Enge bertelsen & S. Bendixsen (eds.), Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 205–228.