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Jacques Rancière - The Politics of Aesthetics

Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, Continuum, 2004.
For Rancière, aesthetics means “a specific regime for identifying and reflecting on the arts: a mode of articulation between ways of doing and making, their corresponding forms of visibility, and possible ways of thinking about their relationships”(10). It does not merely refer to… »

W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology and Picture Theory

What is an image? What is picture? Rather, what is the relationship between image and idea, image and word, the visual and the verbal, or the visible and the sayable? What is the relation of pictures and language? Is the one superior to the other, or each of them belongs to the different realm? The… »

Pierre Bourdieu - Distinction: Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Harvard UP, 1984.
My impression of Bourdieu’s Distinction is that his radical social theory of class differentiation does not leave any room for subjective position, focusing on the deepest objectification of the “nature of the game.” Thus for him, cultural capital, which was assumed to be derived… »

Elspeth Probyn - Outside Belongings

Elspeth Probyn, Outside Belongings, Routledge, 1996.
What is the ‘outside belongings’? What does Probyn try to describe with the notion? How do the ‘outside’ and the ‘belongings’ comes together and why? To begin with, instead of identity politics, Probyn defines her study of body and desire as the “sociology of the skin” (5) in which the… »

[Exhibition] The Aesthetics of Gaming

Pace Digital Gallery presents an exhibition curated by Michelle Kasprzak (Scotland), The Aesthetics of Gaming.
The Aesthetics of Gaming
~Michelle Kasprzak
February 10 - March 3
Reception Feb 26, 5 - 7pm
(5:00 pm lecture by Joe McKay / 6:00pm reception)

images (L-R): screenshots from Joe McKay, Avoid, Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier CuteXdoom II; patterns used on this page from CuteXdoom II
At the… »

note on my fields

“Sensation in the Net: Aesthetics and Politics of New Media in the Age of Internet”….
How to connect Science & Tech Studies (on media technology or network) + Aesthetics (or Theories of the Visual)?

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