[csaa-forum] CFP Ranciere: Politics, Art, Sense

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations Journal Call For Papers:

Rancière: Politics, Art and Sense.
In The Politics of Aesthetics, Jacques Rancière has argued that we need to
rethink aesthetics as ³the invention of new forms of life² (25). Rejecting
the idea that aesthetics should be confined to such questions as the status
of the art object and the aestheticisation of politics, Rancière¹s work
opens up aesthetics to a reflection on the possibilities of sense and its
distribution in terms of sensible forms and practices. Politics is itself
aesthetic in that it requires a sharing of sense in common; art is not the
exemplary site of sensory pleasure or the sublime but a critical break with
common sense, opening up possibilities of new commonalities of sense. Art as
politics is thus a manifestation of what Rancière calls dissensus, or a gap
in the sensible itself. Rethinking the avant-garde as ³the aesthetic
anticipation of the future,² (29) Rancière calls for an aesthetics concerned
with ³the invention of sensible forms and material structures for a life to
come² (29). In this issue of Transformations we invite submissions on
critical aesthetics along the lines outlined above. We are especially
interested in submissions that employ Rancière¹s ideas in particular
artistic and political contexts, both contemporary and historical.


Suggested topics:


- Distributed sense as aesthetic anticipation of the future
- Politics and aesthetics as forms of dissensus
- Technicity and sense as an aesthetic-political problem
- Art as resistance in new media aesthetics
- Bio-art and life to-come
- New media explorations of the senses
- Revision of the Kantian and Hegelian ideas of aesthetics
- Revisiting of the notion of the sublime
- The continuing relevance of the avant-garde


 
Submissions:
 
Abstracts (500 words): due 1st May 2010, with a view to submit articles by
1st August.
 
Abstracts to be sent to Warwick Mules, general editor at w.mules at bigpond.com
 
Transformations: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/



Dr. Warwick Mules
General Editor  Transformations
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/






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