Notes on Evil (Critic's Essay) - Softcover

Warwick, Steven; Floating Opera Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3981910877 ISBN 13: 9783981910872

Verlag: Floating Opera Press, 2022

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What is ‘evil’? How is it categorized, understood and used? Surveying examples from cinema, music and politics, Notes on Evil provides observations on the mechanisms by which societies construct enemies in a collective bid to expel their ‘problems’. But does the label of evil help to rid us of social ills? Or does it just lead to superficial purges that distract us from deeper forms of inequity?

Artist and writer Steven Warwick offers a series of notes on the overlapping social architectures that frame our current discourse on good and evil, seeking to chart a path beyond our collective impasse.

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Steven Warwick is an artist, writer, and musician based in Berlin. His pluralistic, multidisciplinary practice spans formats including albums, galleries, nightclubs, print publications, and the Internet. Warwick's writing has appeared in "Artforum", "Texte zur Kunst", "Frieze", and "Urbanomic".

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What is evil? How is it categorized, understood, and used as a tool? Surveying recent examples of "evil" which have taken hold in mass culture, Notes on Evil examines the mechanisms by which societies construct new enemies in a collective bid to rid themselves of their problems, usually culminating in largely superficial or aestheticized purges. Do societies necessarily need to create evil villains in order to function? And is the villain's role best understood as that of a court jester, who symbolically appears to mock the sovereign, while actually reinforcing their position of power? Artist and writer Steven Warwick reflects on the overlapping social architectures which frame our current discourse on good and evil, ultimately charting a path beyond our present climate of reductivism, false binaries, and collective impasse.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Floating Opera Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3981910877
• ISBN 13: 9783981910872
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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