This book aims to show how arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds, which with their creative modes do provide alternate semantics to the legal failures and the state’s official silence. This book shares the conviction that, after all, artistic articulations allow ethico-aesthetic considerations of “questions that are broader than the law and the institutions of the political, precisely because they are prior to law … and...

In der Epoche des Klimawandels, in Zeiten, in denen die Lebensweisen, wie wir sie kannten, in die Krise gestürzt sind, fordert uns die Existenz von Subjekten, die der Raublogik der menschlichen Person indifferent gegenüberstehen, dazu auf, unser Verhältnis zur Welt neu zu denken.