This article investigates the ideas related to aesthetics that are discussed explicitly in Michiel Heyns’s Invisible Furies (2012). These ideas are communicated in the novel by means of a variety of narrative situations, conversations and artistic reflections on various facets of the aesthetic – specifically on beauty and ugliness as examples of aesthetic properties. This article explores and contextualises Paris as a specific urban space as it provides a narrative frame that enforces knowledge and transformation in some characters. Furthermore, the focus is on beautiful characters that find themselves in the city (mostly exiles from different parts of the world), outer beauty and appearance, as well as beauty and social power. The relationships between beauty and morality, beauty and power, as well as Heyns’s new ways of projecting masculinity are also explored. Essentially, the article seeks to understand the role of beauty in contemporary culture as part of the more general theory of the politics of aesthetics.

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“在美丽的地方肉和布的聚集”：米歇尔·海恩斯的《看不见的愤怒》中的美学政治

本文调查了 Michiel Heyns 的 Invisible Furies (2012) 中明确讨论的与美学相关的想法。这些思想在小说中通过各种叙事情境、对话和对美学各个方面的艺术反思——特别是作为审美特性的例子的美与丑——来传达。本文将巴黎作为一个特定的城市空间进行探索和语境化，因为它提供了一个叙事框架，在某些角色中强制执行知识和转变。此外，重点是在城市中发现自己的美丽角色（主要是来自世界不同地区的流放者）、外在美和外表，以及美和社会力量。美与道德、美与权力的关系，以及 Heyns 展现阳刚之气的新方式也得到了探索。从本质上讲，本文试图将美在当代文化中的作用理解为更一般的美学政治理论的一部分。