Politics and Heideggers Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art

Responding to Heideggers stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates arts capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing.

Louise Carrie Wales presents the work of five contemporary artists Martha Rosler, Christian Boltanski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and collaborators Noorafshan Mirza and Brad Butler who challenge our thinking and compel a dramatic re-positioning of social norms and hidden beliefs. The through-line is rooted in Heideggers question posed at the conclusion of his technology essay as understood through artworks that provides a counter to enframing while using increasingly sophisticated technological methods. The themes are political in nature and continue to have profound resonance in todays geopolitical climate.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, aesthetics, philosophy, and visual culture.