{"product_id":"communities-of-sense-9780822345138","title":"Communities of Sense","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues for a fresh understanding of the relations between politics and aesthetics in a globalized and image-saturated world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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, \u003ci\u003eCommunities \u003c\/i\u003ealso 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 \u003ci\u003eCommunities\u003c\/i\u003e embodies this fundamental political and scholarly commitment.” - Tyson E. Lewis, \u003ci\u003eTeachers College Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . . 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, \u003ci\u003eParallax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A smart and timely consideration of the work of Jacques Ranciere in the context of contemporary art.”—\u003cb\u003eStephen Melville\u003c\/b\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eVision and Textuality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eCommunities of Sense\u003c\/i\u003e will be a reference work for the new directions in art criticism.”—\u003cb\u003eTom Conley\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCartographic Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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 *\u003cbr\u003e“[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, \u003ci\u003eCommunities \u003c\/i\u003ealso 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 \u003ci\u003eCommunities\u003c\/i\u003e embodies this fundamental political and scholarly commitment.” -- Tyson E. Lewis * Teachers College Record *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Rethinking Aesthetics \u003cbr\u003e Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics \/ Jacques Rancière 31\u003cbr\u003e The Romantic Art Work \/ Alexander Potts 51\u003cbr\u003e From Classical to Postclassical Beauty: Institutional Critique and Aesthetic Enigma in Louise Lawler's Photography \/ Toni Ross 79\u003cbr\u003e Technologies of Belonging: \u003ci\u003eSensus Communis\u003c\/i\u003e, Disidentification \/ Ranjana Khanna 111\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Partitioning the Sensible \u003cbr\u003e Dada's Event: Paris, 1921 \/ T. J. Demos 135\u003cbr\u003e Citizen Cursor \/ David Joselit 153\u003cbr\u003e Mass Customization: Corporate Architecture and the \"End\" of Politics \/ Reinhold Martin 172\u003cbr\u003e Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills \/ Yates McKee 197\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. The Limits of Community \u003cbr\u003e Experimental Communities \/ Carlos Basualdo and Reinaldo Laddaga 215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrècaritè, Autoritè, Autonomie\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Rachel Haidu 238\u003cbr\u003e Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of Identity \/ Seth McCormick 267\u003cbr\u003e Thinking Red: Ethical Militance and the Group Subject \/ Emily Apter 294\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Étienne Balibar 317\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 337\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 355\u003cbr\u003e Index 359","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406056235351,"sku":"9780822345138","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/communities-of-sense-9780822345138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}