Common Image

Towards a Larger Than Human Communism

Ingrid Hoelzl author Remi Marie author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:27th Dec '21

Should be back in stock very soon

Common Image cover

Western humanism has established a reifying and predatory relation to the world. While its collateral visual regime, the perspectival image, is still saturating our screens, this relation has reached a dead end. Rather than desperately turning towards transhumanism and geoengineering, we need to readjust our position within community Earth. Facing this predicament, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image - understood as a multisensory perception across species; and common ethics - a comportment that transcends species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger than human communism.

»Ein Buch, das Lust auf Verantwortung macht und Hoffnung in Bezug auf eine fordernde Gegenwart gibt.« Thomas Ballhausen, Eikon, 118 (2022) Besprochen in: https://generalhumanity.org, 01.12.2021

ISBN: 9783837659399

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156 pages