Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics

Published by Duke University Press 2009

Communities of Sense

Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics

Edited by: Beth Hinderliter , Vered Maimon , Jaleh Mansoor and Seth McCormick
With contributions by: Emily Apter and Jacques Rancière

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390978

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About this book

A collection of essays that engage Jacques Rancière's theories in a re-examination of the relationship between contemporary artistic production and politics.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“[A] provocative and wide ranging exploration of Jacques Ranciere’s (2006) controversial assertion that ‘politics is aesthetic in principle’ (p. 58) Although focusing largely on the discipline of art history, Communities also has a broad appeal for those interested in the connections between aesthetic philosophy, social theory, and art practices. Bookended with provocative essays by Ranciere and Etienne Balibar, the collection offers new insights into contemporary art, aesthetic theory, global citizenship, postcolonialism, architecture, and film studies. Just as Ranciere’s own writings encourage interdisciplinary hybridization that challenge canonical divisions between disciplines, so too the form of Communities embodies this fundamental political and scholarly commitment.” - Tyson E. Lewis, Teachers College Record

“. . . . the editors and contributors are to be commended for engaging with a dynamic and much-contested approach to art, and doing so at an early stage of its reception in the Anglophone world. The editors’ introductory essay is a helpful positioning of this perspective, explaining how it relates to debates regarding modernism, postmodernism, relational aesthetics and other attempts to rehabilitate notions from the aesthetic tradition. . . . And Rancière’s essay is one of the best introductions to his recent work on the import of the history of aesthetics and the logics at work in contemporary art.” - Joseph J. Tanke, Parallax

“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

“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

“[T]he editors and contributors are to be commended for engaging with a dynamic and much-contested approach to art, and doing so at an early stage of its reception in the Anglophone world. The editors’ introductory essay is a helpful positioning of this perspective, explaining how it relates to debates regarding modernism, postmodernism, relational aesthetics and other attempts to rehabilitate notions from the aesthetic tradition. . . . And Rancière’s essay is one of the best introductions to his recent work on the import of the history of aesthetics and the logics at work in contemporary art.”

-- Joseph J. Tanke Parallax

“[A] provocative and wide ranging exploration of Jacques Ranciere’s (2006) controversial assertion that ‘politics is aesthetic in principle’ (p. 58) Although focusing largely on the discipline of art history, Communities also has a broad appeal for those interested in the connections between aesthetic philosophy, social theory, and art practices. Bookended with provocative essays by Ranciere and Etienne Balibar, the collection offers new insights into contemporary art, aesthetic theory, global citizenship, postcolonialism, architecture, and film studies. Just as Ranciere’s own writings encourage interdisciplinary hybridization that challenge canonical divisions between disciplines, so too the form of Communities embodies this fundamental political and scholarly commitment.”

-- Tyson E. Lewis Teachers College Record

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Rethinking Aesthetics
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics Jacques Rancière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Romantic Work of Art Alexander Potts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
From Classical to Postclassical Beauty: Institutional Critique and Aesthetic Enigma in Louise Lawler’s Photography Toni Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Technologies of Belonging: Sensus Communis, Disidentification Ranjana Khanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
PART TWO. Partitioning the Sensible
Dada’s Event: Paris, 1921 T. J. Demos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Citizen Cursor David Joselit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Mass Customization: Corporate Architecture and the ‘‘End’’ of Politics Reinhold Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
PART THREE. The Limits of Community
Experimental Communities Carlos Basualdo and Reinaldo Laddaga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Précarité, Autorité, Autonomie Rachel Haidu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Neo-Dada 1951–54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of Identity Seth McCormick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills Yates McKee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Thinking Red: Ethical Militance and the Group Subject Emily Apter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
INTERVIEW with Étienne Balibar
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 380
Illustrations
- Other: 28 illustrations

eBook

Published: September 18, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390978