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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