A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and art
Miško Šuvaković describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a ‘permanent state of emergency’. The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic historicizing) and the politics of space (geographic difference). By mapping visual arts, performance arts, architecture, music, new media and postmedia arts with contemporary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, he challenges established conceptualizations in modern and contemporary art movements.
Table of Content
Introduction
Politics of Theory
1. Theories of Modernism
Politics of Time and Space
2. The Return of the Political
in Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy and Art
3. Troubles with the Economy, Geography and History
The Social Turn
4. Gray Zones – Political Economy through Forms of Life
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach, Friedman, Hayek and Speculative Realism
Socialism / Cold War / Postsocialism
5. The Aesthetics of Disruption
Platforms of Avant-Garde Production in Socialist Yugoslavia and Serbia
6. Conceptual Art
The Yugoslav Case
7. Beyond Borders
John Cage, Cold War Politics and Artistic Experimentation in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Music Through Aesthetics
8. The Phenomenology of the Screen (and / or / as) Event
Musical De-Ontologisation
9. Aesthetics, Politics and Music
The Context of Contemporary Critical Theory
10. Music and Politics
The Reconstruction of Aesthetics and the Contemporary World
Critical Architecture
11. General Theory of Ideology
Architecture
12. Architecture as Cultural Practice
The Market’s Appropriation of the Social or the Ideology of the Multitude
Performance Art
13. Technologies of Performance in Performance Art
Concepts and Phenomenological Research
14. The Avant-Garde: Performance and Dance
Ideologies, Events, Discourses
15. Discourses and Dance
An Introduction to the Analysis of the Resistance of Philosophy and Theory towards Dance
16. Theoretical Performance
Performative Knowledge
Performance Art
17. Appropriations of Music
Postmedia: Music
18. Beyond Paper
Postmedia and Flexible Art
19. Bio Art
The Prehuman / The Human / The Posthuman
20. Simultaneously Always, Now and Everywhere
A Real Fiction
21. Multiple Political/Sexual Bodies
Between the Public and the Intimate
22. Auto-Criticism of Subjectivisation
Painting as Postmedia Politics
Experimental Theory
23. A Claustrophobic Event
Bare Life
24. A Narrative
An Utterly Ordinary Evening – PETIT a
* About the Essays
* Literature
* About the Author
About the author
Miško Šuvaković (* 1954) received his Ph D from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade. He has been professor of applied aesthetics since 1996 and is currently dean of the Faculty of Media and Communication, University Singidunum, Belgrade, as well as president of the Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia.
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