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Aesthetics of Risk: Art, Design, and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty

Aesthetics of Risk: Art, Design, and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty

Hardcover

Series: Social Visualities

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ISBN10: 303220805X
ISBN13: 9783032208057
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 359
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores the central role of art and design in shaping risk perceptions and behaviours. Guidance, warnings, and protocols of risk management shape how possible futures are imagined and governed. How is this imperative to manage risk transforming contemporary visual language? Are its rhetorics of danger, reassurance, and rationality convincing us that we are prepared--and at what cost? Through the analysis of artworks, warnings, pre-enactments, and data visualisations, the book examines the aesthetic dimension of risk as a diagnostic framework for articulating, narrating, and living with uncertainty. Bringing visual culture into dialogue with risk studies, it reimagines fairer, engaging, and trustworthy ways of communicating and preparing for risk.

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