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Mohamed Amer Meziane (FR/US), Interview around the invisible in the arts (in French)

Contemporary art has gradually turned the ritual into an alternative to performance. This gesture deserves to be questioned because it has multiple implications: Is every performance a ritual? Is art as we experience it a product of the disenchantment of the world? If so, can we really make rituals again without subscribing to the hypothesis of an illusory or even impossible re-enchantment of the world? These questions deserve to be explored to understand the articulation of the current mutations of art and the wider context of cosmopolitical and historical upheavals. This interview will attempt to address this.

Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher and historian trained at the Sorbonne in Paris. He now teaches French and Middle East Studies at Brown University, after teaching for four years at Columbia University. He is the author of The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization. His second book is titled At the Edge of the Worlds: Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology. The former is a historical ethnography of 19th century Western philosophers and unknown non-Western theorists, notably from Algeria and Haiti. From Rousseau and Hegel to Abdelkader, it shows how anthropology and orientalism shaped the intertwined histories of philosophical (anti)-metaphysics and social sciences. The latter deploys a philosophy of the Algerian revolution, focusing on North African philosophies and literatures of liberation.

In the frame of Feral

Language french