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Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
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ISSN 2000-4214 · Taylor & Francis Group · 279 artikel di indeks
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Gesture-ing in drawing via theory of Whitehead and Barad
The coined term gesture-ing in the article's title, “Gesture-ing in Drawing via Theory of Whitehead and Barad,” refers to a drawing that is being developed as the article is being written, and provides the motif through which its topic is mapped. In addition, the term relates to the combined role…
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Happily and consciously settled in one’s failure
Recognition of one’s error, flaw, or failure represents both a spontaneous stimulus to improve one’s understanding and/or action and a reason for improvement. Self-reflection of one’s errors is thus naturally embedded in perfectionist projects of a moral or epistemic kind. In comparison, for…
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Tentaculating with the more-than-human ecology in Tuomas A. Laitinen's installations
This article explores Tuomas A. Laitinen’s mixed-media installations that focus on the agency of the octopus and the precarious conditions of the more-than-human watery community. In the installations, Laitinen employs various materials, including glass, water, copper sulfate, and multiple media…
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Fire, film, and resistance: exploring the new cross massacre through Blood Ah Go Run (1982) and Jus Soli (2015)
This article examines the cultural and political significance of the New Cross Fire of 1981 in Deptford (London) and its aftermath, focusing on its representation in two key documentaries produced by two film collectives: Blood Ah Go Run (1982) by Menelik Shabazz and Imruh Bakari and Jus Soli…
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A return to Deleuze's cinema books: four theses on the cinematic, and a film studies of movement
Revisiting Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema, this article extracts from the two books a “new analytic of the image” that operates as an “immanent analysis of movement”. It argues that despite four decades of commentary, the cinema books' core proposition—the object of analysis with cinema is…
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Uneventful and obscured: housewife in postsocialist feminist art
In the article, we investigate non-spectacular, low-key, and small-scale artistic strategies rooted in everyday acts of defiance that are carried out collectively. For that purpose, we examine the political valence of the figure of housewife in postsocialist feminism by attending to the work The…
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Entangled aesthetics: Michelangelo's Crucifixion of St. Peter as an experiment in the development of a global art language
The article interprets Michelangelo's Crucifixion of St. Peter (1547–1550)—whose anticlassical style has puzzled critics, both Renaissance and modern—as an allegorical work destined for viewers belonging to the newly-evangelized regions of Africa, America, and Asia, including those that were…
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King Kong vs. Godzilla: how localisation produced “badness”
There almost always seems to be a Godzilla film in badfilm lists. In Harry and Michael Medved's first book on bad movies, it was Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Gojira tai Hedora, AKA Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, Banno Yoshimitsu, 1971); for Rob Hill in The Bad Movie Bible, it was Godzilla vs…
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Eye, mind, and hand: Su Shi's painting theory and its aesthetic implications
This article aims to articulate Su Shi's painting theory and its aesthetic implications. While some scholars have interpreted his painting practice primarily in terms of the manifestation of the artist's inner personality through external objects, I argue that Su Shi's own accounts of painting…
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Returning dignity to the victims by ‘rendering history legible’: Georges Didi-Huberman, dialectical montage and the question of the archive
This text examines Georges Didi-Huberman's philosophy of visuality, focusing on the use of archival images of mass atrocity, partly in response to the ethical and political problem of engaging with photographs taken by perpetrators of violence. Challenging commentators on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah…
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Climate theatre as reversal agent: eerie art and the anaesthesia of capitalism
This article examines short plays produced by Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA), using a lens from Mark Fisher who is living with us still (eerily haunting us, perhaps) through his two books Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) and The Weird and the Eerie (2016). We first draw on…
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Surface logic and aesthetic displacement: design strategy, opaque interfaces, and the reconfiguration of embodied agency
This article examines the emergence of aesthetic displacement, a broad historical trend in designed objects and systems toward surfaces and interfaces that orient users away from complex understanding, connection to material fabrication, and understanding of mechanical operation to instead orient…
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Artefacts, displays and the imperial gaze: sensory encounters at the international exhibition of 1862
This article examines sensory accounts of spectators at the International Exhibition of 1862 in order to reconsider how exhibitionary power operated in practice. Building on work on the exhibitionary complex and on Orientalism, it argues that the 1862 Exhibition did not function as a seamless…
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Aerial visions, colonial imprints: visualizing the Athabasca oil sands through landscape photography
In recent years, critical geography and visual culture studies have increasingly turned to the role of media and how they shape the ways environments are understood and governed. Among these, landscape photography plays a central role in mediating environmental change, making it either visible or…
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Monsters in our shared world: Aesthetic Action, and the billionaire creators of Historical Action
This essay analyses power dynamics in our technologically advanced world through the lens of Aesthetic Action, defined by exploring “what the world could be,” and contrasting it with Historical Action, driven by a determinate vision of “what the world should be”. Using Florian Klinger’s framework…
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Material aesthetics in Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977)
This article examines the aesthetic, political, and historical significance of material objects in Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977), while exploring how the film translates Munshi Premchand’s short story into a cinematic meditation on decadence, dependency, and colonial subjugation. By…
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Moral shocks to invoke compassion: depicting the suffering and death of animals in animal research and testing facilities
This article presents a preposterous history of moral shocks regarding animals in research and testing facilities. Moral shock is a concept developed by James M. Jasper. It reveals how protest images of suffering animals, as a consequence of research and testing procedures, produce visceral effects…