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aesthetic efficacy

“[W]hat remains vivid, both in their practice and in the criticism they experience, is precisely the ‘critique of the spectacle’–the idea that art has to provide us with more than a spectacle, more than something devoted to the delight of … Continue reading

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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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