The Cosmopolitical Functions of Art and Theory
Aesthetic-Pedagogic Fictioning Devices
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2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-47686-8 (ISBN)
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Addresses the pedagogic aspects of contemporary art and philosophical aesthetics and writing concerned with different, divergent or deviant perspectives, and with fictioning that counters modern and globalizing narratives.
Fictioning Devices proposes that contemporary art has developed new aesthetic and pedagogical functions by presenting metaphysical perspectives that generate alternatives to the narratives and social and political legacies of the Enlightenment, modernism, globalisation and colonialism.
This volume introduces the concept of onto-fictioning, practices presenting ontological and cosmological perspectives, addressing developments in contemporary art influenced by discourses that include the ontological turn in anthropology, and a concern for environmentalism as well as blackness and postcolonialism in the Arts and Humanities. Two concepts in particular run throughout the book: cosmopolitics (concerning the ways in which defining reality is political) and cosmotechnics (concerning the relation of moral or social orders and the cosmos, articulated through technical activities or approaches to technology). Artworks that present fiction to generate encounters with multiple ontological and cosmological perspectives present narratives that differ, diverge or deviate from modern and globalising narratives, troubling the narrative of one-world shared by one-people and other similar narratives. The book engages with diverse artists and thinkers including John Akomfrah, Yuk Hui, Lawrence Lek, Fred Moten, Tai Shani, Susan Stengers, Eduardo Viverios de Castro and Sylvia Wynter.
Fictioning Devices proposes that contemporary art has developed new aesthetic and pedagogical functions by presenting metaphysical perspectives that generate alternatives to the narratives and social and political legacies of the Enlightenment, modernism, globalisation and colonialism.
This volume introduces the concept of onto-fictioning, practices presenting ontological and cosmological perspectives, addressing developments in contemporary art influenced by discourses that include the ontological turn in anthropology, and a concern for environmentalism as well as blackness and postcolonialism in the Arts and Humanities. Two concepts in particular run throughout the book: cosmopolitics (concerning the ways in which defining reality is political) and cosmotechnics (concerning the relation of moral or social orders and the cosmos, articulated through technical activities or approaches to technology). Artworks that present fiction to generate encounters with multiple ontological and cosmological perspectives present narratives that differ, diverge or deviate from modern and globalising narratives, troubling the narrative of one-world shared by one-people and other similar narratives. The book engages with diverse artists and thinkers including John Akomfrah, Yuk Hui, Lawrence Lek, Fred Moten, Tai Shani, Susan Stengers, Eduardo Viverios de Castro and Sylvia Wynter.
David Burrows is Professor of Fine Art in the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London, UK.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface: Staying with the Trouble!
Introduction: Against Narrative Monopolies!
Part I: Worlds and Fault Lines
1. Real and Imaginary Spacetime
2. Earth Stories: Territories and Fault Lines
3. A World in which many Futures fit
Part II: Perspectival Machines and Fictioning Devices
4. Spacetime Perspectivist Devices
5. Hybrid and Quantum Perspectivist Devices
6. Ontological Fictioning Devices
Part III: (Non)Humanism and Cosmofictioning
7. Humans after Humanism: Cosmopolitics after Enlightenment Man
8. Not-In-Common Communities
9. Fictioning a Neo-Pagan Academy
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Alternative |
| Zusatzinfo | 50 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-47686-2 / 1350476862 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-47686-8 / 9781350476868 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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