What is the absurd and why does it matter today?

Some have called this an age of absurdity, and as such Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Press 2024) presents the contributions of artists and scholars who consider how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary. The absurd is a lens on the disturbances of our moment and a challenge to the propositions about and solutions for the world. The absurd shakes off the paralysis that what we know must be the only thing we (re)produce.

Here is the introduction, written with Katherine Guinness.