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The Power Of Horror: Abject Art And Terrorism In Don Delillo’S Falling Man, Kelsie Donnelly
The Power Of Horror: Abject Art And Terrorism In Don Delillo’S Falling Man, Kelsie Donnelly
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This paper argues that Don DeLillo’s 2007 novel, Falling Man, engages with abject art to disrupt the pre-existing systems of signification and dualistic rhetoric that characterized state and media responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The novel engages with one of the most controversial areas of 9/11 discourse: claims that the attacks were an artistic spectacle. Falling Man posits that if art is to continue to grapple with the meanings of 9/11, it must depart from familiar discourses of tragedy and triumph and embrace radical artistic responses. The novel fulfills this through its engagement with abject …
Introduction, Emmanouil Aretoulakis
Introduction, Emmanouil Aretoulakis
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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The Aesthetics Of Terrorism And The Temporalities Of Representation, Robert Appelbaum
The Aesthetics Of Terrorism And The Temporalities Of Representation, Robert Appelbaum
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Representations of terrorism, in fiction and non-fiction, summon their readers and viewers to examine terrorism in any of at least four modes of temporality: the past, the past perfect, the continuous present, and the simple present. This essay explains those modalities and shows how they work with reference to novels, a film documentary, and contemporary American television, including the documentary Black September and the series NCIS. The modalities are ideological as well as narratological functions and are sometimes employed to occlude the historical and pragmatic dimensions of terrorist violence. Terrorism is always already aesthetic and “hyperreal,” in Jean Baudrillard’s …
Isis And Futurist Terrorism Versus Cyberpunk, Thorsten Botz-Bornstei
Isis And Futurist Terrorism Versus Cyberpunk, Thorsten Botz-Bornstei
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The origin of science fiction is twentieth-century Futurism. For the largest part of the twentieth century, science fiction maintained an optimistic attitude towards the future. At the end of the 1970s, the modern, optimistic, and futurist vision of the future, typical for avant-garde movements of the 1930s, took a negative turn and became dark, pessimistic, and cynical, in a postmodern sense; it became what would be called, in a word, ‘cyberpunk.’ In this article, I want to show that the terrorist organization generally known as ISIS (Islamic State) intends, or rather intended, to go back to futurism and modernism by …
Letters On The Aesthetic Deformation Of Man, Katya Mandoki
Letters On The Aesthetic Deformation Of Man, Katya Mandoki
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Friedrich Schiller wrote Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man hoping to elevate human potential through the arts for the development of free citizens of the Republic, and also in reaction to the decline of the French Revolution into a Reign of Terror. Nowadays, with the prominent role social networks have acquired in human relations, aesthetics is an invaluable tool for capturing attention in marketing and political propaganda, no less than in recruitment and indoctrination by terrorist organizations. Adopting a pragmatics approach, we will examine Schiller’s relevance today regarding uses and abuses of aesthetics related to terrorism, focusing on the …
Who Are We?, Jale Erzen
Who Are We?, Jale Erzen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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Charting New Territory: The Aesthetic Value Of Artistic Visions That Emanate In The Aftermath Of Severe Trauma, Tania Love Abramson, Paul R. Abramson
Charting New Territory: The Aesthetic Value Of Artistic Visions That Emanate In The Aftermath Of Severe Trauma, Tania Love Abramson, Paul R. Abramson
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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Duchamp And The Science Of Art, Miklos Legrady
Duchamp And The Science Of Art, Miklos Legrady
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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The Cosmography Of Aesthetics, Yrjö Sepänmaa
The Cosmography Of Aesthetics, Yrjö Sepänmaa
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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