Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics by Beth Hinderliter (En

Description: Communities of Sense by Beth Hinderliter, Vered Maimon, Jaleh Mansoor, Seth McCormick Argues for a fresh understanding of the relations between politics and aesthetics in a globalized and image-saturated world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Communities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in todays globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Rancieres theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined as the "science of the sensible," 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 collections 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 todays 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 volumes 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 Notes Essays that engage Jacques Rancieres theories in a re-examination of the relationship between contemporary artistic production and politics Back Cover "The essays collected here are more than timely. They speak to the blurring of aesthetic and political conflict that we are witnessing in the world at large. Both an aesthetic and a political object,Communities of Sensewill be a reference work for the new directions in art criticism."-Tom Conley, author ofCartographic Cinema Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part One. Rethinking Aesthetics Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics / Jacques Rancière 31The Romantic Art Work / Alexander Potts 51From Classical to Postclassical Beauty: Institutional Critique and Aesthetic Enigma in Louise Lawlers Photography / Toni Ross 79Technologies of Belonging: Sensus Communis, Disidentification / Ranjana Khanna 111Part Two. Partitioning the Sensible Dadas Event: Paris, 1921 / T. J. Demos 135Citizen Cursor / David Joselit 153Mass Customization: Corporate Architecture and the "End" of Politics / Reinhold Martin 172Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills / Yates McKee 197Part Three. The Limits of Community Experimental Communities / Carlos Basualdo and Reinaldo Laddaga 215Prècaritè, Autoritè, Autonomie / Rachel Haidu 238Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of Identity / Seth McCormick 267Thinking Red: Ethical Militance and the Group Subject / Emily Apter 294Interview with Étienne Balibar 317Bibliography 337Contributors 355Index 359 Review "The essays collected here are more than timely. They speak to the blurring of aesthetic and political conflict that we are witnessing in the world at large. Both an aesthetic and a political object, Communities of Sense will be a reference work for the new directions in art criticism."--Tom Conley, author of Cartographic Cinema "A smart and timely consideration of the work of Jacques Ranciere in the context of contemporary art."--Stephen Melville, co-editor of Vision and Textuality Promotional Essays that engage Jacques Rancieres theories in a re-examination of the relationship between contemporary artistic production and politics Review Quote "The essays collected here are more than timely. They speak to the blurring of aesthetic and political conflict that we are witnessing in the world at large. Both an aesthetic and a political object, Communities of Sense will be a reference work for the new directions in art criticism."-Tom Conley, author of Cartographic Cinema "A smart and timely consideration of the work of Jacques Ranciere in the context of contemporary art."-Stephen Melville, co-editor of Vision and Textuality Promotional "Headline" Essays that engage Jacques Rancires theories in a re-examination of the relationship between contemporary artistic production and politics Details ISBN0822345137 Short Title COMMUNITIES OF SENSE Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822345137 ISBN-13 9780822345138 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Seth McCormick Birth 1973 Author Seth McCormick UK Release Date 2009-09-18 AU Release Date 2009-09-18 NZ Release Date 2009-09-18 US Release Date 2009-09-18 Pages 384 Publication Date 2009-09-18 DEWEY 701.17 Illustrations 28 illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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