{"product_id":"bad-infinity-selected-writings-9783956796470","title":"Bad Infinity: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompiled here for the first time, the selected writings of Aria Dean (b. 1993, Los Angeles) mount a trenchant critique of representational systems. A visual artist and filmmaker, Dean has also emerged as one of the leading critical voices of her generation through a body of writing that maps the forces of aesthetic theory, image regimes, and visibility onto questions of race and power. Dean's work across media has long been defined by what she calls a \"fixation on the subject and its borders,\" and the texts collected here filter that inquiry through digital networks, art history, and Black radical thought. Equally at home discussing artists who embrace difficulty--from Robert Morris to David Hammons, Lorna Simpson, and Ulysses Jenkins--and conceptual frameworks such as Afropessimism, Dean often contends with how theoretical positions brush against the grain of lived reality: how the Structuralism handed down from the academy, for instance, can be commingled with critiques of structural racism, or how Georges Bataille's notion of base matter transforms through an encounter with Blackness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDean's thinking embraces a definition of \"Black art that luxuriates in its outside-the-world-ness,\" as she writes in this volume, which works to elucidate \"Blackness's proclivity for making and unmaking its own rules as it produces objects\" of cultural necessity. Originally published in \u003ci\u003eNovember\u003c\/i\u003e--of which Dean is a founding editor--as well as in \u003ci\u003eTexte zur Kunst\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and in exhibition contexts, the essays compiled in \u003ci\u003eBad Infinity\u003c\/i\u003e were written over a six-year span that charts our rapidly evolving forms of subjectivity and sociality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11865806\"\u003eAria Dean\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783956796470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3956796470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART009000\"\u003eCriticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC056000\"\u003eBlack Studies (Global)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI040000\"\u003eMovements | Critical Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAria Dean is an artist and critic whose work examines the structures of individual and collective subjectivity in relation to aesthetics, cultural histories, and technology. Working across traditions of Black radical thought, European philosophy, and media studies, Dean's work deconstructs and reconfigures networks of visibility, representation, and power. Her critical writing reevaluates art-historical theory and proposes alternative approaches that thoroughly account for dispossession, circulation, and social death. Her writings have been published in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTexte zur Kunst\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNovember\u003c\/i\u003e, of which she is a founding editor. As a visual artist, Dean has exhibited widely in solo and group presentations at such venues as the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Greene Naftali, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the 2022 Whitney Biennial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44485082972397,"sku":"9783956796470","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_48b90c4c-5841-4059-9f22-2190e6765882.jpg?v=1747494540","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/bad-infinity-selected-writings-9783956796470","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}