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What AI “art” can teach us about art Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Simona Chiodo
In the last years, the use of the words “AI art”, i.e. art produced by artificial intelligence, has exponentially increased. Sometimes, they have been used without philosophical awareness, from pub...
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The standardized, mechanized, and annotated body. Fragmentation as cultural technique in recent video works by Kajsa Dahlberg, Kalle Brolin, and Hanni Kamaly Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Sara Callahan
For several decades now, audio-visual artworks have routinely been described as “research” or “research based”. However, the relationship between image, research and theory is often unclear, partic...
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The unbearable lightness of objects: Günter Figal’s spatial aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Karam AbuSehly
The main work of philosopher Günter Figal (1949–2024) was to undertake the continuation of hermeneutical philosophy after the deaths of its three major proponents: Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur. ...
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The vertical axis and the agôn between theatre and philosophy Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Ira Avneri
This article explores the controversy between ancient Greek dramatists and their fellow philosophers over the vertical axis, with special reference to Socrates. I begin with a discussion of the ver...
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“Whose roar is it, anyway? Localization and ideological communication with respect to the toho Godzilla franchise” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Jeeshan Gazi
Since the mid-1980s, film critics and audiences have come to recognize Ishirō Honda’s original cut of Gojira/Godzilla (1954) to be a substantial meditation on the atomic bombing of Japan, an analys...
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Food porn 2.0? Definitions, challenges, and potentials of an elusive concept Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Jonatan Leer
Food porn emerged in the 1970s as an academic concept and has since become integrated into everyday social media use. The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of food porn through a critic...
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Sonorous assemblages. Speculating a metallurgical aesthetic of airport media art Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Marek Wojtaszek
As airport terminals continue to expand, the level of noise steadily increases, and yet when we think of an airport lounge, we tend to recall an image rather than a sound. Simultaneously, modern ai...
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‘Evil never dies, right?’ Monstrous mediation in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Film Series Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Morten Feldtfos Thomsen
This article investigates images of mediation in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, focusing primarily on its main antagonist, Freddy Krueger, and his monstrous uses of media. Employing Eug...
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Pessimistic aesthetics and the re-valuation of guilty pleasures: on the moral and metaphysical significance of escapism Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Drew M. Dalton
There is a previously unrecognized coupling which underlies the Western evaluation of aesthetic experiences. By and large, we are taught that for our aesthetic pleasures to have any “value” (i.e. t...
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Photorealism versus photography. AI-generated depiction in the age of visual disinformation Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Liv Hausken
In the spring of 2023, we witnessed a breakthrough in the development of AI-generated images accessible to the general public. Pictures of Pope Francis wearing a stylishly long, white puffer jacket...
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Cinematic TV drama Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Erlend Lavik
Several television scholars have objected to the frequently made claim that TV drama in recent decades have become “more cinematic”, partly because cinematic-ness is such an ill-defined concept. Th...
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Brutal truth: modern(ist) aesthetics and death metal Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Benjamin W. McCraw
Here, I explore a modernist aesthetics of death metal. First, I briefly describe a few themes that characterize some modern art, without any claim that they are necessary, sufficient, or exhaustive...
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Staging division: power, violence, and theatricality in The Baby of Mâcon Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Marco de Waard
Peter Greenaway’s The Baby of Mâcon (1993) was highly controversial at the time of its release; its means for critiquing cinematic voyeurism and the exploitability of audiences were received as bla...
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Gazing at monsters: aesthetics, politics, and the national distribution of the sensible Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Emre Keser
The Humanity Monument, a gigantic monument in Kars, a northeastern border city of Turkey, was intended to be visible from the Armenian side of the border and supposed to send messages of peace, apo...
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Metaphysics of the sequence shot: the gathering and nihilating of being in Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Isabel Rocamora
This article examines the philosophical implications of Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse (2011) by attending to the thematic and aesthetic configuration of its sequence shots. The film’s durational imag...
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Stray aesthetic in the cinema of Andrea Arnold Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarly examination of the nonhuman in the cinema of Andrea Arnold by reading her work through the figure of the “stray”, proposed by Julia Kristeva and developed by Barbara Creed in her exploration of “stray ethics” in the Anthropocene. Through a close analysis of Arnold’s three films, Dog (2001), Wasp (2003) and Fish Tank (2009), I argue that Arnold’s
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On patheme: affective shifts and Gustavian culture Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Erik Wallrup
ABSTRACT Despite the attention that the affective sphere has reached in the last decades, affectivity has generally been supposed to be a consequence of historical processes, not changing their direction. This article argues instead that affectivity can be a driving force in historical change, and it establishes the concept of “patheme” in relation to Michel Foucault’s “episteme”, Martin Heidegger’s
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The surrogate labor of the eye: Farocki, Papa, and the eeefff collective Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Tereza Stejskalová
ABSTRACT The following essay explores the work of art as a site of encounter with human perceptual labor that plays a role in technical operations. It tackles the way such labor is deemed obsolete, soon to be replaced, and therefore surrogate even if it actually animates and reproduces automated vision systems. It explores how art goes about representing the ways in which such labor is undervalued
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The forgotten art of walking. Toward intra-active geography of an urban landscape Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Jakub Petri
ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose to redefine the classical studies of urban trails and wanderings by giving greater consideration to the affective and intra-active aspects of the performance of gait. Hence, the idea is to deepen our knowledge of landscape as a sphere of movement. The need to conduct research on urban walking emerges from the mechanics of so-called “sensory motor amnesia”, an unaware
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Critique of the living dead: algorithmic aesthetic and the biopolitics of the zombie Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias
ABSTRACT Recognizing the importance of the zombie in the interpretative forms of contemporaneity, this paper aims to actualize the current focus of the phenomenon in order to understand it within a strictly material framework. Its aim therewith is to take the perception of the zombie, not as a symptom or metaphor as commonly done, but as a floating signifier in order to analyze the material conditions
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Meta-artistic immersion in digital exhibitions. History – mobilization – spectatorship Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Nikita Mathias
ABSTRACT In the recent decade, the works of canonical visual artists have been presented as immersive multimedia attractions in venues worldwide. Performed in all-encompassing screen spaces and put into motion, this otherwise static and spatially confined imagery has been turned into mobilizing and seemingly boundless visual experiences. What are the aesthetic-receptive characteristics of such immersive
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Intersections between Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Gilbert Simondon: imagistic experience in the associated milieu Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Andreia Machado Oliveira
ABSTRACT This article proposes intersections between the Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila and French philosopher Gilbert Simondon and puts forward a complex approach to experience relative to specific behavioral ecologies/environments (umwelt) in terms of the concepts of image and associated milieu. Conceiving imagistic experience as embodied experience, I go beyond the image as visual or pictorial
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“An eye that saw more lofty things than mortal eye is now struck blind” (Hölderlin): German politics and aesthetics in Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Der Tod des Empedokles (1986) and Jean-Luc Godard’s Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (1991) Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Karel Pletinck
ABSTRACT The sudden flourishing of reflections on light, nature and poetry that occurred from the mid-80s onwards in the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, could not fail to surprise. Between their reputation as Brechtian, materialist filmmakers and these seemingly apolitical reflections, developed in conjunction with their appeal to Hölderlin’s “idealist” poetry, there
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Azamba publics: containment, care and curating in the “expanded private sphere” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Victoria Mponda, Dr Janna Graham
ABSTRACT The lack of space, movement and even breath afforded to many communities cuts across seemingly mobile life trajectories, constraining and constricting even (and often especially) the movement of people across and within transnational borders. How do arts organisations and projects explicitly work against the violence of these forms of constraint? Where liberal models of the public sphere have
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Introduction to 2021 special issue of JAC on art in public spaces Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-08 Anne Ring Petersen, Sabine Dahl Nielsen
ABSTRACT The Introduction outlines the thematic framework of this special issue of Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. It begins by identifying some of the common concerns and leitmotifs that interconnect the individual articles. It then gives summaries of the individual contributions and situates them within the common thematics of this special issue. The articles examine some recent changes to the ways
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Levels and loot: archives in video games Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Fabian Lorenz Winter
ABSTRACT This study examines video games’ depictions of archival architectures in levels and practices of interacting with archival material such as looting. By doing this, the article proposes a processual idea of proper archives and virtual counterparts, both determined by various moments of interplay, such as opening treasure chests, boxes, or cells. Archived artifacts, hidden in games to be discovered
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Entanglements of adaptation, allegory, and reception: Jaws and An Enemy of the People Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Ellen Rees, Thor Holt
ABSTRACT In this article the authors discuss Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) with Henrik Ibsen’s En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People; 1882) as a test case for formulating a better theoretical understanding of adaptations that are neither “announced” nor “extended”; the analysis thus explores adaptation as a special form of intertextuality. The authors reference other cinematic engagements with the
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Unconditional hospitality: art and commons under planetary migration Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Pelin Tan
ABSTRACT In both European and non-European cities, public spaces are formed by racist and segregative politics that influence everyday life. Planetary migration flows and recently implemented border politics tend to leave the most vulnerable in precarious conditions, not only in the case of migrants/refugees but also in the case of citizens. This article focuses on how artistic methodologies in the
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No count! BIPoC artists counteracting “fair” representation and systemic racial loneliness in higher education in the arts Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt
ABSTRACT Art in public space is fundamentally determined by who has access to the artworld. At the entrance to the artworld of today—the art academy—resides an ideal of global mobility that relates to cognitive capitalism and competitiveness but also to the repeating of rationales of white privilege and a hidden structural racism. By analysing how Higher Education in the Arts in Denmark awards “free”
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Jacques Rancière: aesthetics, time, politics Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Christian Fajardo
ABSTRACT This article explores Jacques Rancière’s critique of political philosophy. I argue that, to understand this critique, it is necessary to explore the aesthetic dimension of philosophers’ politics, pointing out that, at its foundation, lies a certain understanding of time that, paradoxically, negates political practice. To get out of this paradox, I point out that Rancière proposes a politics
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How does a film remember? Cinematic memory as a living constellation in El escarabajo de oro o Victorias Hämnd Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Niina Oisalo
ABSTRACT The film El escarabajo de oro o Victorias Hämnd (2014), directed by the Argentinean-Swedish duo Alejo Moguillansky and Fia-Stina Sandlund, presents clashing storylines, histories, merged film genres and conflicting aspirations within a transnational film production set in Argentina. It stages a performance founded on real circumstances, where two filmmakers (Moguillansky and Sandlund) begin
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Legislative arts: interplays of art and law Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Amin Parsa, Eric Snodgrass
ABSTRACT The relation of law and art is conventionally understood through a disciplinary divide that presents art as an instrument of legal practice and scholarship or, alternatively, presents law as potential context for artistic engagement. Moving beyond disciplinary definitions, in this article we explore how art and law, as modes of ordering and action in the world, often overlap in their respective
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What does Caravaggio have to do with “muzz” influx into Europe? Controversial street murals in Brussels and the question of political street art Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Deniz Berfin Ayaydin
ABSTRACT Brussels has been the scene for a number of murals depicting sexually explicit and violent acts since 2016. Both online and offline discussions surrounding the murals reveal the complexities between visibility regimes and public spaces. While street art literature has grown in various academic areas, street art remains undertheorised, especially when it comes to public reactions. How street
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How to think about how to think about aesthetic value Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Dominic McIver Lopes
ABSTRACT Several art scholars have recently doubted the prudence of thinking about the nature of aesthetic value. The problem is that traditional thinking about aesthetic value fails to capture the specificities with which empirical art scholars must grapple. This paper diagnoses how the tradition came to think in this problematic way about aesthetic value. It then sketches an approach to aesthetic
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Public art projects in exposed social housing areas in Denmark – dilemmas and potentials Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Birgit Eriksson, Anne Scott Sørensen
ABSTRACT Western European cultural policies increasingly target marginalized and socially deprived communities. In Denmark, this happens in the political and discursive context of the so-called “ghetto act” (2018), a set of laws and amendments aimed at radically changing low-income public housing neighbourhoods with a high percentage of “non-Western” residents. Consequential, several Danish public
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The roads of rage and ruin: contemporary art and its publics after the global Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Simon Sheikh
ABSTRACT This essay will consider the possibilities for contemporary art and culture in the current age of anger, the post-public condition, the historical phase of deglobalization, and the demise of the international artworld and contemporary art as we knew it. First of all, I will outline how contemporary art came to be structurally and historically after 1989, and how this was aligned with the central
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Small-scale art organizations as participatory platforms for decolonizing practices and sensibilities Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Nina Möntmann
ABSTRACT The debate on restitution and other decolonizing practices of museums has been getting a lot of attention both in the public debate and in cultural studies. This essay shifts the focus to small-scale institutions and art spaces and their specific decolonizing practices and sensibilities. Unlike anthropological as well as art museums, which are dealing primarily with the politics of collecting
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Cosmos and nomos: cosmopolitanism in art and political philosophy Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Nikos Papastergiadis
ABSTRACT In this article I address the tensions between normative political philosophy and aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida have been two of the most influential philosophers to engage with the political and ethical questions of cosmopolitanism. Habermas has drawn on the foundations established by Immanuel Kant and set out to define an institutional framework that could
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Feminist strategies for changing the story: re-imagining Arctic exploration narratives through (the staging of) photographs, travel writing and found objects Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Stephanie von Spreter
ABSTRACT This article shows how contemporary artistic practice seeks to re-evaluate, re-interpret and re-imagine (historical) Arctic exploration narratives that have generally been considered gendered and dominated by men. It particularly examines the work of contemporary Norwegian artist Tonje Bøe Birkeland, whose entire practice emerges from embodying and staging imagined turn of the century woman
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and Georges Didi-Huberman: the persistence of lost worlds Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Stijn De Cauwer
ABSTRACT In two striking books released in 2019, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and Georges Didi-Huberman explicitly draw a connection between their respective theoretical approaches to images and their family histories. In Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Azoulay recounts the suppression of the existence of her Algerian-Jewish grandmother Aïsha by her father, who wanted to hide his Arabic-Algerian
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The reconfiguration of publics and spaces through art: strategies of agitation and amelioration Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-04
ABSTRACT Across the world, public spaces are undergoing profound transformations, in tandem with the pluralization processes resulting from several decades of intensified global migration. The aim of this article is to provide some overarching perspectives on the topic of this special issue by examining how artistic and curatorial modes of address contribute to the creation of new public spaces and
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Comparative counter-archival creativity: M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! and La Vaughn Belle’s Chaney Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-29
ABSTRACT This article presents a comparative analysis of works of Caribbean art and literature that engage in a mutual project of addressing the paradox of the colonial archive. Trinidadian-Canadian writer M. NourbeSe Philip crafted her long poem Zong! from an eighteenth-century legal document about the murder of 132 enslaved Africans onboard the slave ship of the same name. Exposing the dehumanizing
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The aesthetic judgment “this is art” in Stanley Cavell and Thierry de Duve Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-19
ABSTRACT Stanley Cavell and Thierry de Duve have independently proposed that judgments of the type “this is art” are aesthetic judgments, to be understood along the lines of Kant’s analysis of the judgment of taste. Contrary to the common philosophical strategy of pursuing a definition of art that could be applied to controversial cases, Cavell and de Duve reinterpret the art-judgment as a reflective
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The politics of arrival: Israeli borderscapes and the boundaries of artistic space in Emi Sfard’s Invasive Species Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Noa Roei
ABSTRACT This article explores ecologically-inflected conceptions of home and belonging through a detailed study of Invasive Species (2017), an immersive media installation by emerging artist Emi Sfard. The installation comprises two interactive video works created with the help of 3D computer programs that can be updated in real time. Both works relate in different ways to Israeli landscape imaginaries
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Oskar Schlemmer’s Kitsch (1922): a contextualisation and translation Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Emily Brayshaw
ABSTRACT This article contextualises a previously unpublished manuscript on the subject of kitsch written in 1922 by the Bauhaus practitioner Oskar Schlemmer and provides an original annotated translation as an appendix. The article positions Schlemmer’s manuscript as a response to debates about the aesthetics of kitsch among his contemporaries in the German and Austrian intelligentsia, including Austrian
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“WHITE TRASH”: GESTURES AND PROFANATIONS IN THE VISUAL ECONOMY OF FASHION Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-16 Roberto Filippello
ABSTRACT In this article, a photo story depicting “white trash” subjects in the act of defying middle-class proprieties of dress and manners serves as a case study for a critical exploration of the performative registers through which working-class bodies figure as agents of social sedition in the visual economy of fashion. The unglamorous and confrontational bodies in Memory—shot by Alexei Hay and
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The register of the artist Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-16 Elizabeth A. Hodson
ABSTRACT Central to art was once its relationship to the imaginative interior of the artist. The legacy of romanticism and the sublime has been systematically eroded throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Although for some not entirely lost. Contemporary discourses around the posthuman have played their part in the erasure of the artist, through the breakdown of the centrality of our bodily self in
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Between home and flight: interior space, time and desire in the films of Chantal Akerman Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Irene Valle Corpas
ABSTRACT This article sets out to review the films of Chantal Akerman, mainly those that she made in the 1970s and 1980s, observing how her filmmaking formulates a journey to and from the home against the background of the historical scene post 1968. Through a selection of examples, I will argue that the singularities of her filmmaking—the exploration of suspended time, the preference for a frontal
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Poetic objectification of a shattered subject: the alchemical poetry of Josep Palau i Fabre Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 Sergi Castella-Martinez
ABSTRACT A number of modern poets have presented their works as an alchemical endeavor. Their verses display the hermeneutical clues of an analogy that elaborates on a heterodox ancestral practice and that simultaneously assumes poetry’s experimental nature. Alchemical poetology constitutes thus a specific alternative of contemporary poetic expression, and it stands out for its elements’ material treatment
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“A new image of man”: Harun Farocki and cinema as chiro-praxis Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Henrik Gustafsson
ABSTRACT In Harun Farocki’s lifelong study of the mute language of manual expressions, the human hand is explored not only as a versatile tool, but as a repository of social memory, a topos in the genealogy of the moving image, and a critical agent in the theory and practice of filmmaking itself. While cinema distinguished itself from previous artistic media through its capacity to salvage and store
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Fabulous folds: revolutionary costumes in Grey Gardens (1975) Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ilona Hongisto,Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
ABSTRACT This essay discusses the material agency of clothing in the celebrated documentary classic Grey Gardens (David and Albert Maysles, USA 1975). Drawing on the extraordinary relationship between the protagonists, their clothing, the filming location, and the filmmakers, the essay shows how the protagonists of the documentary “think up” costumes that enable them to temporarily exceed difficult
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Machinic enculturation, copyright bots, and the aesthetics of composing mashups for machines Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Miles C. Coleman,Mark Anthoney
ABSTRACT Sample-based media producers compose their art for machines. They implement aural effects and editing techniques to their source media, which very directly affect the sound of their music, but the aesthetics of which are not aimed at human ears; they are aimed at convincing copyright bots their media is not worth “flagging.” We offer machinic enculturation as a term descriptive of the phenomenon
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Aesthetic injustice Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Gustavo H. Dalaqua
ABSTRACT In this article, the author advances the concept of aesthetic injustice, which denotes any harm done to someone specifically in her capacity as an aesthetic being, and explores four dimensions of this new philosophical concept. First, the author appeals to the notion of colonial mentality presented by Amílcar Cabral in order to show how aesthetic injustice is experienced differently by the
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In a silent way Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Erik Anderson
ABSTRACT I argue that silence is replete with aesthetic character and that it can be a rewarding object of aesthetic appreciation, assessment, and appraisal. The appreciation of silence might initially seem impossible, for, it might seem, there is nothing there to behold. Taking up this challenge, I attempt to dispel the sense of paradox. I contend that, despite our never actually experiencing absolute
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Research on the normativity of aesthetic judgements in film criticism Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Pavel Zahrádka
Following methodological relativism, the paper reflects critically on objectivist theories of aesthetic judgement that derive its objectivity from the rules by which the judgement is made, or from ...
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Art criticism and the newness of video art: the reception of video art in the Swedish daily press, 1985–1991 Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Anna Orrghen
The aim of this article is to present and examine how art criticism in the Swedish daily press has dealt with video art as a new art form. The article argues that art criticism is challenged by hav...
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The artwork’s community Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Pioter Shmugliakov
The paper explores the inherent political dimension of art, theorized as the artwork’s community: the community structurally constitutive of the work of art as a phenomenon. I distinguish between t...
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Aesthetics of an Iranian diaspora – politics of belonging and difference in contemporary art photography Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Cathrine Bublatzky
Following a particular interest in memories and stories of exile and their representation in artistic photography, I draw critical attention to the notion of diasporic aesthetics. I ask why visual ...
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Stand-up comedy as a hallmark of western culture Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Anna Kawalec
The article examines stand-up comedy in view of the symptoms of Western culture that constitute the environment in which this artistic expression has matured. These systems of Western culture inclu...
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Musical aesthetics below ground: volcanic action and the geosocial in Sigur Rós’s “Brennisteinn” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Tore Størvold
This article presents a musicological and ecocritical close reading of the song “Brennisteinn” (“sulphur” or, literally, “burning rock”) by the acclaimed post-rock band Sigur Ros. The song—and its ...