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The object as a process
This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object - broadly construed, comprising digital and other non-classical objects - becomes an active element in artistic practice.
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The politics of perception and the aesthetics of social change
Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are found in the reflexive self-awareness that it enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity ...
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The possibility of a world
Jean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.
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The scandal of susan sontag
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literaturethe willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range...
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The social organization of arts
The authors critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim of encouraging further research and theoretical developments.
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The work of art
Art making as a way of mediating between inner and outer realities.
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Thinking of space relationally
Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as “travelling conceptual knowledge,” distinguishes them, and reflects on the epistemic fallacy that arises from recontextualising them uncritically in studying contemporary urban space in China.
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Transitional territories
Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those disciplines.
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Turning social
How can music mediation foster social cohesion and dialogue? A critical exploration of its social-transformative potential.
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Virtual photography
This book discusses the latest photographic technologies, and how we can now take photos in computer games, interpolate them in Virtual Reality platforms, or synthesize them via Artificial Intelligence.
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When was modernism
A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through interpretive and theoretical essays, Geeta Kapur seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives and affirm an open-ended engagement wi...
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Why only art can save us
Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, contemporary art's ability to create new realities is fundamental to democracy. He advances a new aesthetics that draws on Martin Heidegger's distinction between works of art that rescue us from emer...
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Why the assembly disbanded
Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collection, Why the Assembly Di...
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Worlding and storying forced displacement
How are art's worldmaking and storytelling capacities activated in contemporary artistic representations of forced displacement?
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