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Performing Politics, Troy R.E. Paddock Jan 2015

Performing Politics, Troy R.E. Paddock

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn idea. This article argues that Benjamin’s critique of politics can apply just as much to the modern democratic politics of the United States. Borrowing from Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Carl Schmitt, this article suggests that modern political discourse in the United States does not follow the classical liberal ideal of rational discourse in the marketplace of ideas within the public sphere. Instead, contemporary politics has become spectacle where images and slogans replace thought and debate in a 24/7 news cycle and political infotainment programs. The result …


2015-2016 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives Jan 2015

2015-2016 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

No abstract provided.


Listening To Musical Performers, Aron Edidin Jan 2015

Listening To Musical Performers, Aron Edidin

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In the philosophy of music and in musicology, aprt from ethnomusicology, there is a long tradition of focus on musical compositions as objects of inquiry. But in both disciplines, a body of recent work focuses on the place of performance in the making of music. Most of this work, however, still takes for granted that compositions, at leas in Western art music, are the primary objects of aesthetic attention. In this paper I focus on aesthetic attention to the performing activity itself. I begin by roughly characterizing what is involve in attending to the performing activity of musical performers. I …


Notices Jan 2015

Notices

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Recent Publications Jan 2015

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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The Aesthetic Pulse Of The Everyday: Defending Dewey, Kalle Puolakka Jan 2015

The Aesthetic Pulse Of The Everyday: Defending Dewey, Kalle Puolakka

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In the relatively fragmented field of everyday aesthetics, some issues have gradually become the subject of increasingly heated debate. One of the primary disputes concerns aesthetic experience and how that concept should be understood. This article defends the view that the conception of aesthetic experience developed by John Dewey offers a much more promising foundation for a theory on the aesthetics of everyday life than some scholars have believed.


Epistemic Function And Ontology Of Analog And Digital Images, Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcarez Jan 2015

Epistemic Function And Ontology Of Analog And Digital Images, Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcarez

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The important epistemic function of photographic images is their active role in construction and reconstruction of our beliefs concerning the world and human identity, since we often consider photographs as presenting reality or even the Real itself. Because photography can convince people of how different social and ethnic groups and even they themselves look, documentary projects and the dissemination of photographic practices supported the transition from disciplinary society to the present-day society of control. While both analog and digital images are formed from the same basic materia, the ways in which this matter appears are distinctive. In the case of …


Yellowism And Ontology: A Skeptical Analysis, Wesley D. Cray Jan 2015

Yellowism And Ontology: A Skeptical Analysis, Wesley D. Cray

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

When Vladimir Umanets entered the Tate Modern on October 7, 2012 and defaced Rothko's Black on Maroon, he was operating, not as an artist or a vandal, but as a Yellowist. Yellowism is neither art nor anti-art but is instead a supposedly new cultural element that exists for its own sake and is about nothing but the color yellow. It might be tempting to write Yellowism and the Rothko defacement off as a mere prank or as pseudo-intellectual fraud, but I argue that, intentionally or not, the Yellowists have raised issues salient to those invested in both the ontology of …


Norms Of Cultivation, Kevin Melchionne Jan 2015

Norms Of Cultivation, Kevin Melchionne

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this paper I identify a new group of aesthetic norms, which I call norms of cultivation. Judgments of taste are often accompanied by forecasts or expectations about future aesthetic satisfaction. When we find something beautiful, we expect to find it beautiful in the future. Forecasting is at play in all sorts of aesthetically motivated behavior. Yet psychologists have observed an unreliability in such forecasts. As a result of forecasting error, what we take as our taste can be an unreliable guide in our aesthetic lives. Compensating for the unreliability of taste are norms of cultivation, implicit rules for engaging …


Longing For Clouds - Does Beautiful Weather Have To Be Fine?, Mădălina Diaconu Jan 2015

Longing For Clouds - Does Beautiful Weather Have To Be Fine?, Mădălina Diaconu

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Any attempt to outline a meteorological aesthetics centered on so-called beautiful weather has to overcome several difficulties: In everyday life, the appreciation of the weather is mostly related to practical interests or reduced to the ideal of stereotypical fine weather that is conceived according to blue-sky thinking irrespective of climate diversity. Also, an aesthetics of fine weather seems, strictly speaking, to be impossible given that such weather conditions usually allow humans to focus on aspects other than weather, which contradicts the autotelic character of beauty. The unreflective equation of beautiful weather with moderately sunny weather and a cloudless sky also …


A Boy, Cassandra Sheedy, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

A Boy, Cassandra Sheedy, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Bottom Of The Lake = Fond Du Lac, Christian Patterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2015

Bottom Of The Lake = Fond Du Lac, Christian Patterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

68, 175 pages : illustrations (some color). Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac, printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with Patterson's own drawings, photographs and marginalia. Bottom of the Lake is a book within a book that carefully combines the original, found, fact-based phone book with the artist's highly subjective re-imagination of his hometown; it playfully juxtaposes different documentary forms and ways of seeing to create a deeply personal, darkly humorous other book. …


Girl A Boy B Girl C, Frances Logan, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Girl A Boy B Girl C, Frances Logan, Fleet Library, Special Collections

1st Student Artists' Book Contest 2015

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Cordycecps On Bullet Ants, Tiffany Bushka, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

The Effects Of Cordycecps On Bullet Ants, Tiffany Bushka, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


John Heartfield: Life And Work, Michelle Devlin, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

John Heartfield: Life And Work, Michelle Devlin, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


23 Años De Silencio, Nabil Gonzalez, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

23 Años De Silencio, Nabil Gonzalez, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Dropcloth Dialogue, Holly (Hool) Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Dropcloth Dialogue, Holly (Hool) Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Providence Plants, Arnon Karnkaeng, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Providence Plants, Arnon Karnkaeng, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


A Day In The Life Of A Puffin, Lauren Oh, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

A Day In The Life Of A Puffin, Lauren Oh, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Absent Body, Vanessa Nieto Romero, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Absent Body, Vanessa Nieto Romero, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

3rd PURCHASE PRIZE WINNER $250 | Laurie Whitehill Award


Love Juice, Katrina Pisetti, Henry Mcclellan, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Love Juice, Katrina Pisetti, Henry Mcclellan, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


El Armario Familiar De Colecciónes, Michelle Perez, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

El Armario Familiar De Colecciónes, Michelle Perez, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Please,, Thalassa Raasch, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Please,, Thalassa Raasch, Fleet Library, Special Collections

1st Student Artists' Book Contest 2015

No abstract provided.


Inside Out, Zashary Caro, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Inside Out, Zashary Caro, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Laundry Pup, Erica Enriquez, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Laundry Pup, Erica Enriquez, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Risd Alphabet, Hwarim Lee, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Risd Alphabet, Hwarim Lee, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


The World May Be Falling Apart But We Can Still Dance To Calypso Music, Lee Pivnik, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

The World May Be Falling Apart But We Can Still Dance To Calypso Music, Lee Pivnik, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Elizabeth Schweizer, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Untitled, Elizabeth Schweizer, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Providence, Wooksang Kwong, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Providence, Wooksang Kwong, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.


Antique Instagram, Hyo Bin Yang, Fleet Library, Special Collections Jan 2015

Antique Instagram, Hyo Bin Yang, Fleet Library, Special Collections

2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016

No abstract provided.