[Commlist] New Book: Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images

We are pleased to announce that our volume /Ethical Materialities in Art 
and Moving Images /has been published.
The 35% discount code MOVINGIMAGE35 is valid until July 1st:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethical-materialities-in-art-and-moving-images-9781350427143/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethical-materialities-in-art-and-moving-images-9781350427143/> 

*Endorsements:*
“This wonderfully diverse volume shows how the zone of ethics is always 
a zone of jagged, not flat, ontologies. It is a primer for what it means 
to take ethics—and the ethics of art—seriously.”
Cary Wolfe, Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, USA, and 
author of /What is Posthumanism?/ (2009) and /Art and Posthumanism/ (2022)
“Applying Spinoza’s ethics to film and painting, this groundbreaking 
anthology deconstructs differences between the human and non-human, 
material and nonmaterial to create new connections between ethical 
thought and practice.”
Colin Gardner, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of 
California, Santa Barbara, USA, and co-editor of /Deleuze and the 
Animal/ (2017) and /Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with 
Guattari/ (2018)
“A powerful and timely retort to the rejection of ethics in recent 
philosophy and art theory. With its lively range of perspectives and 
readings of art works, the book moves beyond reductive theoretical 
framings of matter and meaning to address some of the most pressing 
political and ethical questions in a time of mass extinction.”
Ros Gray, Reader and Co-Director, Centre for Art and Ecology, 
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
“Are you curious how materialities and ethics relate to each other when 
it comes to artists, audiovisual culture, bio- or media-diversity, and 
philosophy? Would you like to follow many materials and their mutable 
natures in the Anthropocene? Then this excellent book is for you!”
Petra Lange-Berndt, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University 
of Hamburg, Germany, and editor of /Materiality/ (2015)
*Description:*
In the age of the so-called Anthropocene, when artworks cannot rest upon 
their separation from the planet, /Ethical Materialities in Art and 
Moving Images/ questions the ethical and material relations that 
artists, art and images are entangled in. Ethics are generally regarded 
as constituted through immaterial relations guided by moral imperatives. 
By contrast, this volume argues that the singular ethicalities that are 
manifested in a work cannot be captured by abstract ethics. The 
explorations of the ethical here are not prescriptive, but creative. 
Through artistic and philosophical thought and practice, the 
contributions move beyond the division between an active practice of 
ethics and a contemplative theory of aesthetics. Across three sections, 
practitioners and theorists consider the singular relations between 
materials and ethics in biodiverse environments. They suggest that to 
bring out the ethical dimensions of the material and the material 
dimension of the ethical—without identifying one with the other—is a 
responsibility of art and images.

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