Imperfect Solidarities - Aruna D'Souza impermanent and incomplete)

impermanent and incomplete)

I remain most grateful to everyone who has supported me through the decades

di Prima worked on the final iteration of her enduring project

sculptures

Kyklàda Press

Imperfect Solidarities - Aruna D'Souza impermanent and incomplete)Can empathy deliver political change? Does art that elicits emotional identification with others take us where we need to go? In Imperfect Solidarities, writer and art historian Aruna DSouza offers observations pulled from current events as well as contemporary art that suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotion is an imperfect ground for solidarity. Empathyand its correlate, loveis a distraction from the hard work that