A Response to the Issues Raised in the Special Edition of Ethnos

ABSTRACT

An artist's response to the issues raised in the special edition of Ethnos. Using her own artwork to think through the issues raised, this afterword focuses on Levinas and a discussion around ethics and politics in both the artworld and anthropology. It ends with a discussion about storytelling or knowledge-formation and how Nature today serves the same rhetorical and narrative purpose that God has served in previous generations.

KEYWORDS:

• Levinas
• storytelling
• genealogies of knowledge
• art practice
• ethics and politics

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.