Carnal Aesthetics

Name: Carnal Aesthetics
Brand: Duke University Press
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The Art of Living in Latinidad

By: Mariana Ortega

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Hardcover | 7 January 2025

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344 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24

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In Carnal Aesthetics, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the idea of carnal aesthetics informed by carnalities, creative practices informed by the self's affective attunement to the material, cultural, historical, communal, and the spiritual. For Ortega, carnal aesthetics offers a way to think about the affective and bodily experiences of racialized selves. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldua, Chela Sandoval, Jose Esteban Munoz, Alia Al-Saji, Helen Ngo, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, and others, Ortega examines photographic works on Latinx subjects. She analyzes the photography of Laura Aguilar, Veronica Gabriela Cardenas, and Susan Meiselas, among others, theorizing photography as a carnal, affective medium that is crucial for processes of self-formation, resistance, and mourning in Latinx life. She ends with an intimate reading of photography through a reflection of her own crossing from Nicaragua to the United States in 1979. Motivated by her experience of loss and exile, Ortega argues for the importance of carnal aesthetics in destabilizing and transforming normative, colonial, and decolonial subjects, imaginaries, and structures.

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"This is a remarkable book. Through an analysis of artistic practices and ideas, Mariana Ortega produces a feeling-thinking, or sentir/pensar, of the contemporary conditions of immigrant life, Latinx life, female embodiment, and queer life. By focusing on an aesthetics of the carnal, she explores how art can change our habits of perception to help us see and feel what is before us. This is a book that has a heartbeat." -- Linda Martin Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York

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