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Title: The Politics of Aesthetics
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| The Politics of Aesthetics by Continuum International Publishing Group The Injunction of Aesthetics and Politics | Jacques Ranciere in The Politics of Aesthetics implicates aesthetics and politics as part of the same paradigm in a series of short essays and an interview. Ranciere poses three "regimes" in art: the (1) political/ethical, (2) poiesis/mimesis and (3) aesthetic. Using these regimes, Ranciere develops an acute sense of modernism and postmodernism on the basis that the former tried to represent the "teleology of historical evolution and rupture" (p. 28) and that the latter mournfully reversed the notion of historical contingency wholesale. Ranciere's address of a "politics of aesthetics" and "aesthetics to politics" posits an interesting injunction between what often seem two disparate fields of practice. The Politics of Aesthetics remarkably investigates two knotty matters: political theory and art-theory using methods derived from materialism and marxism.
Ranciere writes of art that it happens and, as such, makes visible. This visibility opens up multiple "universal" possibilities, contrary to the singularity of a universal transcendent truth of non-happening in art. Yet, Ranciere does not say what appearance these possibilities should have, but that they be aesthetic and political--a fascinating finding.
| | The Politics of Aesthetics by Continuum International Publishing Group Interesting essays badly translated. | This sort of book is always a pig in a poke and the pig is the translation. the translater here, one Gabriel Rockhill, is either very badly edited by Continuum (always possible) or is a dreadful writer. If you want an introduction to Ranciere, read _The Ignorant Schoolmaster_, which is translated by kristin Ross. I can't imagine why Continuum put out such a shoddily edited book, except maybe they figured, cynically, it would be read by art students, on whom actual prose is wasted.
If you're in art school, you're already wasting thousands on a useless degree, but here is sixteen dollars that you can save. Don't buy this book. | | The Politics of Aesthetics by Continuum International Publishing Group Book Description | | The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming 'aesthetics' from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of modernity, the role of visual technologies, the relationship between history and fiction, utopias, the avant-garde and the three aesthetic regimes which constitute the 'partitions of the sensible.' Already translated into five languages, this English edition of The Politics of Aesthetics includes a new afterword by Slavoj Zizek and a new interview with Ranciere. |
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