Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2017
Description
Examines and compares the relation between politics and aesthetics in major texts by: Rancière, Balibar, Nancy, Latour, Harman, Badiou, Meillassoux, Jane Bennett, Tim Morton and others. Focuses on politics of aesthetics in critical texts of the last two decades that link a politics of aesthetics to the reassessment of world(s), objects, sensation, matter while looking for a new type of realism. Deleuze, Rancière, Nancy, Cixous, Latour, Stengers, Bennett, Graham, Badiou, Meillassoux, Morton will be paired with film, fiction, painting.