Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images

This wonderfully diverse volume shows how the zone of ethics is always a zone of jagged, not flat, ontologies. It is a primer for what it means to take ethics—and the ethics of art—seriously. * Cary Wolfe, Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, USA, and author of What is Posthumanism? (2009) and Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations (2022) *Applying Spinoza’s ethics – to affect and be affected – to film and painting, this groundbreaking anthology deconstructs differences between the human and non-human, material and non-material to create new connections between ethical thought and practice. * Colin Gardner, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and co-editor of Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari (2018) and Deleuze and the Animal (2017) *Are you curious how materialities and ethics relate to each other when it comes to art, audiovisual culture, bio- or media-diversity, and philosophy? Would you like to follow many materials and their mutable natures in the Anthropocene? Then this excellent book is for you! * Petra Lange-Berndt, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Hamburg, Germany, and editor of Materiality (2015) *A powerful and timely retort to the rejection of ethics in recent philosophy and art theory. With its lively range of perspectives and readings of art works, the book moves beyond reductive theoretical framings of matter and meaning to address some of the most pressing political and ethical questions in a time of mass extinction. * Ros Gray, Reader and Co-Director, Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *

Silke Panse is Reader in Film, Art and Philosophy, University for the Creative Arts, UK.