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Lessons In Playing: A Current Work Of Art As A Biopolitical Milieu, Tim Stott
Lessons In Playing: A Current Work Of Art As A Biopolitical Milieu, Tim Stott
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This paper will examine how, when certain current works of art are presented as playgrounds, in which previously unknown persons encounter one another, their play is both complexly organised around play objects and other constraints and governed within what Foucault termed a biopolitical milieu. On the one hand, this development changes the values and qualities that might describe aesthetic play, or the play particular to the encounter with works of art. On the other hand, it tests Foucault’s analysis of how biopolitical techniques of governance “make live” and allow players “to be free to be free.”
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Lessons In Playing: A Current Work Of Art As A Biopolitical Milieu, Tim Stott
Lessons In Playing: A Current Work Of Art As A Biopolitical Milieu, Tim Stott
Conference Papers
This paper will examine how, when certain current works of art are presented as playgrounds, in which previously unknown persons encounter one another, their play is both complexly organised around play objects and other constraints and governed within what Foucault termed a biopolitical milieu. On the one hand, this development changes the values and qualities that might describe aesthetic play, or the play particular to the encounter with works of art. On the other hand, it tests Foucault’s analysis of how biopolitical techniques of governance “make live” and allow players “to be free to be free.”
In more detail, …