Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance Mihai Mihaela
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance Mihai Mihaela With this nuanced and interdisciplinary work, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several…
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Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance Mihai Mihaela
With this nuanced and interdisciplinary work, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present?Building on insights from political theory, social epistemology, and feminist and critical race theory, Mihai argues that a double erasure often structures hegemonic narratives of complex violence: of widespread, heterogeneous complicity and of impure resistances, not easily subsumed to exceptionalist heroic models. Who is excluded from such histories' cast of characters?
In dialogue with care ethicists and philosophers of art, she then suggests that such narrative reductionism can be disrupted aesthetically through practices of mnemonic care, that is, through the hermeneutical labor that critical artists deliver--thematically
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