The new existentialism
By: Tim Griffin, ed. ; [with contributions from Emily Apter [and four others]]
Contributors: Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Les Presses du Réel New York series; Presses du réel New York series
Publisher: Presses du Réel Editions; Les Presses Du Reel
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Dijon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9782840669623
Subjects: Existentialism; Art and philosophy; Congresses; Existentialism in art
Description: In the face of radical transitions in social organization, technology, and the living environment, numerous thinkers have moved away from semiotic and psychoanalytic critical models in order to question human agency and imagine a broader material one existing in the world. Yet the language attending such endeavors?often put forward in the spirit of?scientific? or?objective? exercise?suggests we would benefit from revisiting another era's interrogations of rationalism to engage the dilemmas of our own time.0The New Existentialism takes stock of contemporary art in light of these philosophical dialogues, proposing how the tenuous human subject is again faced with the prospect of defining its parameters and context in order to arrive at different terms for ethical thinking, conduct, and meaning.0Edited with a preface by curator and author Tim Griffin, The New Existentialism follows on from the eponymous conference organized at The Kitchen in the context of the ART2 festival in New York in April 2014.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held at The Kitchen, New York, April 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.