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i swear i saw this
Read this book.
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Pierre, a concept IS aesthetic!
(Hans Haacke, MoMA Poll, 1970) (And I hadn’t realized we were taking sides…) Pierre Bourdieu: With esthetics you are on the side of feeling, sensitivity, and pleasure. That is also true of writers. But can and should philosophers, sociologists, everyone … Continue reading
redistributing the sensible
Yesterday I had a discussion about Bataille, about excess. Someone asked me about the importance of art in a social context where aesthetics are seen as unnecessary (unlike “the essential”—politics, for example). I defended the aesthetic as political, as deeply … Continue reading
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