Professor John Paul Ricco’s new book: The Decision Between Us, Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes
12 Apr 2014 - 16:00 / 12 Apr 2014 - 19:00
Manufactured Art Studios ((Back Entrance, Second floor)
2 Howland Ave
Toronto
BOOK LAUNCH
Join Professor John Paul Ricco in celebrating the release of his new monograph:
The Decision Between Us
Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes
(University of Chicago Press)
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The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Using this incongruous relation of intimate separation, Ricco goes on to propose that “decision” is as much an aesthetic as it is an ethical construct, and one that is always defined in terms of our relations to loss, absence, departure, and death.
