Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy

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Mark Foster Gage (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, Yale University)

Aesthetics Equals Politics

New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy

Mark Foster Gage (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, Yale University)

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MIT Press
04 April 2023

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Theory of architecture; Philosophy: aesthetics

"How aesthetics-understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity-might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.

How aesthetics-understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity-might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.

These 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.

The contributors-philosophers, media theorists, artists, curators, writers and architects including such notable figures as Jacques Ranci re, Graham Harman, and Elaine Scarry-build a compelling framework for a new aesthetic discourse. The book opens with a conversation in which Ranci re 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.

Contributors Mark Foster Gage, Jacques Ranci re, 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

Matt Shaw, Managing Editor"

Edited by: Mark Foster Gage (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor Yale University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547710
ISBN 10: 0262547716
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 04 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Foster Gage is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Architecture. A practicing architect, he is the subject of the monograph Mark Foster Gage- Projects and Provocations, editor of Aesthetic Theory- Essential Texts for Architecture and Design and The Space of Social Equity and the author of Designing Social Equality- Architecture, Aesthetics and the Perception of Democracy, 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.