Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024)

How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? What if we listen to photographs? How might they undo us? Can we be undone? In Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad (Duke UP, 2025), Mariana Ortega focuses on photography using a hermeneutics of love and critical phenomenology to think about and with creative practices of primarily Latinx artists. Moving from the ocular to the mouthly, Ortega opens up possibilities for being affected by art. She also shows how artists use aesthetic practices to transform themselves, the possibilities for life, and as means to refuse to forget the dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member!

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Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024) is an episode from New Books in Philosophy by New Books Network.

This episode is 76:41 long.

This episode was published on Dec 16, 2025.

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