{"product_id":"aesthetics-equals-politics-new-discourses-across-art-architecture-and-philosophy-paperback","title":"Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Foster Gage\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics--one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing framework for human activity. Such an aesthetics, the contributors suggest, could become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. Departing from the \"critical\" stance of twentieth-century artists and theorists who embraced a counter-aesthetic framework for political engagement, this book documents how a broader understanding of aesthetics can offer insights into our relationships not only with objects, spaces, environments, and ecologies, but also with each other and the political structures in which we are all enmeshed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributors--philosophers, media theorists, artists, curators, writers and architects including such notable figures as Jacques Rancière, Graham Harman, and Elaine Scarry--build a compelling framework for a new aesthetic discourse. The book opens with a conversation in which Rancière tells the volume's editor, Mark Foster Gage, that the aesthetic is \"about the experience of a common world.\" The essays following discuss such topics as the perception of reality; abstraction in ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics as the \"first philosophy\"; Afrofuturism; Xenofeminism; philosophical realism; the productive force of alienation; and the unbearable lightness of current creative discourse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Foster Gage, Jacques Rancière, Elaine Scarry, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, Ferda Kolatan, Adam Fure, Michael Young, Nettrice R. Gaskins, Roger Rothman, Diann Bauer, Matt Shaw, Albena Yaneva, Brett Mommersteeg, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Rhett Russo, Peggy Deamer, Caroline Picard \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatt Shaw, Managing Editor\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Foster Gage is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Architecture. A practicing architect, he is the subject of the monograph \u003ci\u003eMark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Social Equity\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eDesigning Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics and the Perception of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. His design work has been exhibited in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Venice Biennale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45248466026598,"sku":"9780262547710","price":81.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dlFNSkYydUJiZlZPUUsyOW52ajd2UT09.webp?v=1773568232","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/aesthetics-equals-politics-new-discourses-across-art-architecture-and-philosophy-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}