[csaa-forum] Transformations: Rancière : Politics, Art & Sense

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations Journal is pleased to announce the release of issue no. 19
(2011) :



Rancière: Politics, Art & 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). This issue of Transformations contains a number of articles
responding to Rancière¹s ideas, and in particular his revisionist agenda
which critiques many orthodox positions related to sense, aesthetics and
political practice.


Articles:

Thinking the Unthinkable as a Form of Dissensus: The Case of the Witness
Anat Ascher

The Spare Image in an Unsparing World: Framing the Soldier in an
Indeterminate War 
Sudeep Dasgupta

Feminism After Rancière: Women in J.M. Coetzee and Jeff Wall
Arne De Boever

The Distribution of the Nonsensical and the Political Aesthetics of Humour
Nicholas Holm

³These.Are.The Breaks²: Rethinking Disagreement Through Hip Hop
Robin James

Departures from postmodern doctrine in Jacques Rancière¹s account of the
politics of artistic modernity
Toni Ross

Sublime Gender Transposition: The Reformed Platonism of Jacques Rancière¹s
Aesthetics as Queer Performance
Karin Sellberg


The issue can be accessed at

 http://www.transformationsjournal.org/

Chs


Warwick


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




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