Cambridge, MA, Estados Unidos : The MIT Press, c2019.

1 recurso electrónico (317 p.)

Preface. -- I. The New Foundations of Aesthetic Discourse. -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Politics Equals Aesthetics: A Conversation between Jacques Rancière and Mark Foster Gage. -- 3. Building and Breath: Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness. -- 4. A New Sense of Mimesis. -- 5. Use the Force. -- II. Framing the Aesthetic. -- 6. In Pursuit of the Allusive Object. -- 7. Aesthetics Postdigital. -- 8. The Aesthetics of Abstraction. -- III. Aesthetics and the Politics of Practice. -- 9. Cosmogramic Design: A Cultural Model of the Aesthetic Response. -- 10. Absolutely Small: Sketch of an Anarchist Aesthetic. -- 11. Aesthetics as Alienation. -- 12. Reorienting Criticism: Against an A Priori Reductionism. -- 13. The Unbearable Lightness of Architectural Aesthetic Discourse. -- IV. Aesthetic Alternatives. -- 14. BigDog, or, The Precarious Aesthetics of Tumbling. -- 15. Feral Architecture. -- 16. Architecture, Deep and Cryptic. -- 17. Aesthetic Critique/Aesthetic Activism. -- 18. The Strangers among Us. --

"How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. These essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing framework for human activity. Such an aesthetics, the contributors suggest, could become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. Departing from the “critical” stance of twentieth-century artists and theorists who embraced a counter-aesthetic framework for political engagement, this book documents how a broader understanding of aesthetics can offer insights into our relationships not only with objects, spaces, environments, and ecologies, but also with each other and the political structures in which we are all enmeshed. The contributors—philosophers, media theorists, artists, curators, writers and architects including such notable figures as Jacques Rancière, Graham Harman, and Elaine Scarry—build a compelling framework for a new aesthetic discourse. The book opens with a conversation in which Rancière tells the volume's editor, Mark Foster Gage, that the aesthetic is “about the experience of a common world.” The essays following discuss such topics as the perception of reality; abstraction in ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics as the “first philosophy”; Afrofuturism; Xenofeminism; philosophical realism; the productive force of alienation; and the unbearable lightness of current creative discourse. Contributors: Mark Foster Gage, Jacques Rancière, Elaine Scarry, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, Ferda Kolatan, Adam Fure, Michael Young, Nettrice R. Gaskins, Roger Rothman, Diann Bauer, Matt Shaw, Albena Yaneva, Brett Mommersteeg, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Rhett Russo, Peggy Deamer, Caroline Picard."

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