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A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson’s passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide―from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker―but certain themes intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking, and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts. As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson’s own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.

In ihrem Werk ergründet Nelson die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Ethik und zieht dafür von Fotografie über Film bis hin zu Literatur und Malerei Beispiele heran, die sie punktgenau analysiert. Ihr Anliegen ist, zu untersuchen, inwiefern Kunst, die Grausamkeit thematisiert, in einer ohnehin grausamen Welt von Bedeutung ist, was ihre Motivation und ihre Wirkungen sind. Nelson verzichtet dabei auf Werke mit eindeutiger moralischer Aussage sowie auf solche, die Grausamkeit unreflektiert darstellen; vielmehr sucht sie das Vielschichtige und Uneindeutige auf, legt ihr Augenmerk auf kontroverse, schwer einzuordnende Werke. Dabei verknüpft sie ihre präzisen Betrachtungen mit philosophischen und ethischen Fragestellungen, zeigt die politischen Dimensionen der Kunstproduktion und -rezeption auf und behält immer die Menschlichkeit im Blick, zu der alle Kunst letztlich in Bezug steht. Der Hintergrund, vor dem das Werk entstand – Krieg und Menschenrechtsverletzungen – ist auch in Europa bedauernswerterweise aktueller denn je. Nelsons nuancierte Erkundung der künstlerischen Landschaft des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts bietet ein Modell dafür, wie sich ethische Überzeugungen mit Wertschätzung für Kunstwerke in Einklang bringen lassen, die die Grenzen des Geschmacks, des Tabus und der Zulässigkeit berühren.

Maggie Nelson wirft Fragen auf, die uns dazu auffordern, neu über Freiheit nachzudenken. Nach "Bluets" und "Die Argonauten" verknüpft sie erneut gekonnt Philosophie mit radikaler Kritik. Was es heißen könnte, frei zu sein, beschäftigt Maggie Nelson fast ihr ganzes Leben. Kaum ein anderer Wert ist so eng mit unserer Vorstellung vom Menschsein verbunden. Doch seine Bedeutung entgleitet ihr immer wieder. Handelt es sich um einen andauernden Lebenszustand oder um einen einmaligen Moment, der uns befreien wird? Ist Freiheit unerlässlich für Gerechtigkeit und Wohlergehen? Maggie Nelson erkundet kontroverse Debatten in der Kunstwelt, das Erbe der sexuellen Befreiung, die schmerzhaften Paradoxien der Sucht und die Unabwendbarkeit der Klimakrise und vollzieht damit selbst eine Praxis der Freiheit. Sie bietet keine einfachen Antworten, sondern wirft Fragen auf, die uns dazu auffordern, neu über Freiheit nachzudenken.

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing "practices of freedom" by which we negotiate our interrelation with--indeed, our inseparability from--others, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion. For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture--from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis--is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times. -- Publisher description

What can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about the concept in ways that are responsive to our divided world. Drawing on pop culture, theory and the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms: art, sex, drugs and climate. On Freedom offers a bold new perspective on the challenging times in which we live

Tells the story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969, via a collage of poetry and prose.

In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles--syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems--to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.

The narrative recounts the life and tragic death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Her murder remains officially unsolved and is believed to be part of a series of brutal rape-murders in the area during that time. Born after Jane's death, Nelson reflects on the profound impact this event had on her family and her own psyche. The exploration unfolds through a blend of poetry, prose, dream narratives, and documentary sources, including newspapers and true crime literature, along with excerpts from Nelson's diaries from her teenage years. The work is divided into eight sections, detailing Jane's life, her murder, its investigation, and the lasting effects on Nelson's childhood and sisterhood. A trip to Michigan with her mother to retrace Jane's last hours adds depth to the narrative. Each section varies in form, with the transitions and surrounding white space creating fissures that challenge the sensationalism of the story, prompting deeper reflections on girlhood, empathy, and the complexities of another's life and death. This piece serves as an elegy, memoir, detective story, and a meditation on violence, expanding the boundaries of poetry and storytelling.

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian. 'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast, their cleverness and odd beauty lingering on' Observer. In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it: she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day. The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson's singular account of her aunt Jane's death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward. Officially unsolved for decades, the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect, who would soon be arrested and tried. In 2005, Nelson found herself attending the trial, and reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence, particularly against women. Resurrecting her interior world during the trial - in all its horror, grief, obsession, recklessness, scepticism and downright confusion - Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity and, in its subtle indeterminacy, deadly moral precision.

A genre-bending memoir that offers fierce and fresh reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism. At the centre is a love-story, between Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is undergoing gender reassignment, while Nelson undergoes the transformations of pregnancy. Personal, honest and wide-ranging, Nelson explores the challenges and complexities that make up a modern family.