Cara Judea Alhadeff is a writer and visual artist who engages embodied theory. Learn more about her work at carajudea.com
"With enormous energy and theoretical appetite, Cara Judea
Alhadeff exposes her thought to the most difficult and most radical
contemporary thinkers, contesting them with her own experience and
insights. Her thought is unlimitedly ambitious and vulnerable. It
issues in making vulnerability central-rather than individual
autonomy or collective enterprise, rather than the subject of
rights or the construction of institutions-and opens a new
perspective on justice and democracy."-Alphonso Lingis,
Pennsylvania State University, author of Violence and Splendor,
Dangerous Emotions, and Trust
"The pride of the European Graduate School, Cara Judea Alhadeff breaks new ground with her first book. Devoted to a radical engagement with embodied democracy, the work offers wide-ranging insight into precarious textual adventure and the artistic intercept. A bold and remarkable boundary crossing on a number of crucial levels."-Avital Ronell, New York University, European Graduate School Switzerland
"In Viscous Expectations, Cara Judea Alhadeff offers an innovative hybrid of complex theoretical discourse, performative photography, and timely political analysis. Her treatment of vulnerability is particularly provocative, as are her analyses of the collision of the hyperphysical with the hypervirtual. Alhadeff opens up new ways of thinking about contemporary life and sexuality, while delving deep into myriad subjects. Everything is embodied, endowed with a sensual visual or verbal presence-from dreams, to pregnancy and motherhood, to Occupy Wall Street. Alhadeff's work is a fascinating fusion of art and scholarship. Intricate theoretical text is paralleled by unexpected photographic imagery-sensuous, enigmatic, and layered. The book extends into new and fluid realms the still-valid idea that 'the personal is political.' Intellectually rigorous and aesthetically daring, the book is hard work, and worth it."-Lucy R. Lippard, art writer, curator, and activist, author of twenty-two books on art and cultural criticism
"A radical provocation envisioning a 'collaborative emancipatory
project' based on a 'dialectic of the unresolvable' and the
'becoming impossible,' Cara Judea Alhadeff's Viscous
Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene presents the
work of an extraordinary individual whose fascinating
autobiography-an American Spanish/Turkish Jew-breathes a renewed
sense of urgency into a lived philosophy, 'perceiving the world
through possibility rather than prescription.' Intimating an
ae(s)thetics of contestation, intercession, resistance, and
outrage, Alhadeff's project reinvigorates the scandal that is
philosophy."-Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, Assistant Professor of
Art and Philosophy, European Graduate School, Switzerland; Chair of
Independent Studies, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual
Arts; and author of Total History, Anti-History, and the Face
that is Other
"Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene, by Cara Judea Alhadeff, is exactly what an 'art book' should be. It offers a unique and singular worldview, posing more questions than answers, but advancing lines of thought and arguments into uncomfortable territory in the form of photos and text to create a further understanding of ourselves. The first impressions of Alhadeff's work always offer uncertain footing, causing her audience to find their own balance of previously conceived notions and context; they are challenged with the new information offered in Alhadeff's sensual, beautiful, and often disturbing pictures. This is important work by an artist who is unflinching with her camera and pen."-Robert Mailer Anderson, author of Boonville and producer of Pig Hunt
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