{"product_id":"9781350476868","title":"Cosmopolitical Functions of Art and Theory Aesthetic-Pedagogic Fictioning Devices","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAlternative | Education\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eCosmopolitical Functions of Art and Theory\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAesthetic-Pedagogic Fictioning Devices\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDavid Burrows | Bernd Herzogenrath | Tim Ingold\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eEducation \/ Teaching \/ Subjects \/ Arts \u0026amp; Humanities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cosmopolitical Functions of Art and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that contemporary artworks are devices that generate encounters with cosmopolitical problems and relations. \u003c\/b\u003eTo this end, the volume explores the ways in which artworks combine aesthetics (experimentation with presentation), pedagogy (constructivist modes of study) and \u003ci\u003efictioning\u003c\/i\u003e (actualization of worlds or communities) to generate social, ontological and cosmological perspectives that offer alternatives to the legacies of modernism, globalisation and colonialism and the narratives of reactionary and technological futurisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree sections–Worlds, Devices, Communities–structure the book's discussion of art and cosmopolitical themes that include: cosmopolitanism and cosmic orders, environmental politics and nonhuman agencies, the ontological turn in anthropology, the cosmologies of quantum mechanics, partiality and studies of blackness, and concepts of pluriversality. This study draws on the practices of a diverse group of artists including, John Akomfrah, Black Quantum Futurism, Filipa César, Libby Heaney, Lawrence Lek, Pauline Oliveros, Orphan Drift, Katrina Plamer, Lea Porsager, Patricia Reed, Rigo 23 and Larissa Sansour, which are placed in dialogue with the concepts of philosophers, geographers, scientists and anthropologists including Karen Barad, Gilles Châtelet, Stuart Hall, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Yuk Hui, Elizabeth Povinelli, Milton Santos, Edward Soja, Eduardo Viverios de Castro and Sylvia Wynter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Burrows\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Fine Art in the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350476868\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378276139148,"sku":"9781350476868","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_f767bfc8-4dd0-43cb-b1d2-baae14d05abb.jpg?v=1783908333","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350476868","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}