{"product_id":"fragility-to-touch-and-be-touched-paperback","title":"Fragility: To Touch and Be Touched - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarlies de Munck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePascal Gielen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLotte Lara Schröder\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the enhancement of aesthetic perception can redeem life's precarity: a manifesto from the authors of \u003ci\u003eNearness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era of intense competition and individualism, we tend to hide our weak spots. When something comes too close and threatens to touch us, we shield our vulnerability. This means that there is less and less room for real human encounter. The forces of quantification and evaluation push people back further and further into a virtual shell.\u003cbr\u003eIn this intimate volume, authors Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen and artist Lotte Lara Schröder make a plea for openness and compassion--because all this sheltering keeps us from touching and from being touched.\u003cbr\u003eAlongside Schröder's drawings, De Munck and Gielen warmly advocate an aesthetic skill: the ability to experience and embrace a ramshackle and fragile reality, and still understand it as a coherent whole. This is the power of culture: to reconcile us with life, even amid its turbulence, incoherence and precarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 6.5 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461562810546,"sku":"9789493246102","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b195d3a7f38e5aa27ba0ef8a662d6150.webp?v=1778952405","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/fragility-to-touch-and-be-touched-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}