Communities of Sense (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics
Redaktion: Beth Hinderliter, Hinderliter

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Produktbeschreibung

Communities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in today's globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Ranciere's theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined as the "e;science of the sensible,"e; is not a depoliticized discourse or theory of art, but instead part of a historically specific organization of social roles and communality. Rather than formulating aesthetics as the Other to politics, the contributors show that aesthetics and politics are mutually implicated in the construction of communities of visibility and sensation through which political orders emerge.The first of the collection's three sections explicitly examines the links between aesthetics and social and political experience. Here a new essay by Ranciere posits art as a key site where disagreement can be staged in order to produce new communities of sense. In the second section, contributors investigate how sense was constructed in the past by the European avant-garde and how it is mobilized in today's global visual and political culture. Exploring the viability of various models of artistic and political critique in the context of globalization, the authors of the essays in the volume's final section suggest a shift from identity politics and preconstituted collectivities toward processes of identification and disidentification. Topics discussed in the volume vary from digital architecture to a makeshift museum in a Paris suburb, and from romantic art theory in the wake of Hegel to the history of the group-subject in political art and performance since 1968. An interview with Etienne Balibar rounds out the collection.Contributors. Emily Apter, Etienne Balibar, Carlos Basualdo, T. J. Demos, Rachel Haidu, Beth Hinderliter, David Joselit, William Kaizen, Ranjanna Khanna, Reinaldo Laddaga, Vered Maimon, Jaleh Mansoor, Reinhold Martin, Seth McCormick, Yates McKee, Alexander Potts, Jacques Ranciere, Toni Ross

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822390978
• Artikelnr.: 54817009

Autorenporträt

Beth Hinderliter is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Buffalo State College. William Kaizen is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies at the University of Masschusetts, Lowell. Vered Maimon is a full-time lecturer in the Art and Design Department at Northeastern University. Jaleh Mansoor is Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Ohio University. Seth McCormick is a Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part One. Rethinking Aesthetics
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics / Jacques Rancière 31
The Romantic Art Work / Alexander Potts 51
From Classical to Postclassical Beauty: Institutional Critique and
Aesthetic Enigma in Louise Lawler's Photography / Toni Ross 79
Technologies of Belonging: Sensus Communis, Disidentification / Ranjana
Khanna 111
Part Two. Partitioning the Sensible
Dada's Event: Paris, 1921 / T. J. Demos 135
Citizen Cursor / David Joselit 153
Mass Customization: Corporate Architecture and the "End" of Politics /
Reinhold Martin 172
Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills / Yates McKee 197
Part Three. The Limits of Community
Experimental Communities / Carlos Basualdo and Reinaldo Laddaga 215
Prècaritè, Autoritè, Autonomie / Rachel Haidu 238
Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of
Identity / Seth McCormick 267
Thinking Red: Ethical Militance and the Group Subject / Emily Apter 294
Interview with Étienne Balibar 317
Bibliography 337
Contributors 355
Index 359