Life in Art

Mariana Ortega is Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Carnalities, The Art of Living in Latinidad and In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self. She is editor (with Andrea J. Pitts and José Medina) of Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation and Resistance and (wit h Linda Martín Alcoff) Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader. Helen A. Fielding is Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Western University. She is author of Cultivating Perception Through Artworks and coeditor (with Dorothea E. Olkowski) of Feminist Phenomenology Futures, and (with Christina Schües and Dorothea E. Olkowski) of Time in Feminist Phenomenology.

• Introductions, by Mariana Ortega and Helen A. FieldingPart I: Sensing Anew, Decolonial Trespassings1. Perceptual Thinking through Movement, by Helen A. Fielding2. Perceiving in Red: The Visible, the Invisible, and Aesthesic Trespassing, by Mariana OrtegaPart II: Spectralities3. The Pink Crosses of Juárez: On Ephemeral Art's Power to Memorialize and Denounce Feminicidal Violence, by Martina Ferrari4. Disrupting Spirits: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Ancestrality, by Stefan Kristensen and Anna BarseghianPart III: The Intimacies of Space5. On Melting Ice with Jessie Kleemann, by Amanda Boetzkes6. Deconstructing the Fetishist Aura of Capitalist Tech-Spectacles, by Nader El-BizriPart IV: Art and the Political7. Pictorial Rationalities and Why They Matter in Our Struggles for Identity and Community, by Jorella Andrews8. Aesthetic Experience as a Site of Social Transformation: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of the Call, by Monique Roelofs9. Distance and Proximity in Merleau-Ponty: Literary Usages of Language and New Usages of Power, by Rajiv KaushikPart V: Artists' Mending Work10. Blessings of Liberty and Interpretative Horizons, by Sarah Stefana Smith11. Decolonial Re-worlding: Potential Ecologies of the Virtual, by Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning and Mary BunchIndex

"What is so remarkable about this volume, at the heart of which lies the dialogue between phenomenology and the embodied experience and creation of art, is the way in which it challenges and subverts Eurocentric colonial logic and systems of domination, privileging mind over body and the cognitive over the imaginative. . . . This is a book of great beauty and importance. It is also a book about care and caring for others, and about movement and moving: its reflection on movements of sensing and shaping anew will move and shape its reader."—Ariane Mildenberg, author of Modernism and Phenomenology: Literature, Philosophy, Art