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... to illuminate the economic and political implications of the media collective's recently developed digital platform. It argues that this distribution format extends the logic of the collective, which has informed both New Day's institutional culture and its dominant aesthetics. Drawing on interviews with key...

...Scott MacKenzie; Anna Westerståhl Stenport Arnait Video Productions is one of the most aesthetically diverse feminist collectives in the world. Founded in 1991 in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, by Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau as the first women's Inuit filmmaking collective, Arnait...

... spaces and aesthetics for producing collective memory that differently configure spectatorial interaction and social intervention. Counterposing the hyperindustrialized military vision of the fictional reality TV show Drones with the social media–styled memory market TruNode, the film’s caricature...

...”—their openness to new ideas, new people, and new connections—that makes them sane. This notion provides a way of thinking about the aesthetic and political stakes of a collaborative process of creative production, such as the one employed in the making of Shortbus and made visible in its final form. This essay...

...-3592499 © 2016 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 149 150  •  Camera Obscura as being fundamentally aesthetic. The texts in this “In Practice” collection emerge from the potential that Glissant’s opacity cre- ates for contemporary feminist and queer politics. In contrast...

... Beyoncé staged through collaborations with Warsan Shire, a British poet born in Kenya to Somali parents; Awol Erizku, an Ethiopian-born American artist raised in the Bronx; and Daniela Vesco, a Costa Rican photographer. This collective of artists forge a black aesthetics at a heightened level...

... whole. Another notable aspect of this loose form of collectivity was the absence of any aesthetic stipulations for the chapters. Just as all filmmakers were responsible for raising their own funds for pro- duction, they were also entirely without constraint in defining their own...

... with the global and local burgeoning of artists’ collectives since the late 1990s, what makes the group distinct is the way in which its rela- tional aesthetics previously practiced in the Okin Apartments has been expanded into the form of the moving image since 2012. That is, Okin’s aim to engender...

... on the novelty of collectivity is not entirely surprising. As Scott Rettberg has noted, with electronic literature there is a “danger of placing too high a value on novelty at the expense of other aesthetic and ideological criteria. We see this in new media art discourse again and again. Turf wars...

.... . . . This is a cinema of moments. . . . Central to these practices is what I am calling gay cinephilia—the set of gay cultural practices revolving around a collectively shared passion for cinema and its history.”34 Haynes’s Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics • 75 Karen smears food...

... relationships and making the world more open and connected, but instead, produce a cacophony of millions of isolated individual voices shouting at and past each other. What I am trying to do through my edit- ing and compilation is reimagine these separate speakers as collectives taking form as a public...

... on the other-is the "avant-garde." This collection of essays details, in brilliant relief, the recurring segregation of high art and mass culture, intends to account for the longevityof this schism, and raises questions about the gerrymandering of aesthetic production in a culture deemed postmodern...

... the flow of trans-­subjectivity, a situation that tem- porarily relieves the cabbie and those encountered through the car’s movement from the capture of capitalism. The viewer, the rider, the driver, and the artists collude in the collective invoca- Aesthetic Process...

.... It attends to the way in which such photographs turn personal scenes of mourning into collective memorials to militancy, even as they embalm their subjects in a state of temporal paralysis and strip them of their individual history. It contrasts these snapshots to Chhachhi’s collaborative portrait of Chadha...

.... This epistemological problem was unthinkable without the corresponding birth of aesthetics as a separate domain within the province of professional philosophy. For speech to maintain its identity, and poetry its place as the highest art (as attested by philosophers from Hegel to Heidegger), meaning...

...- apolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. In the introduction to her collection of essays on photography, Abigail Solomon-Godeau cites the following incendiary comment by Hilton Kramer as an example of an extreme anti-feminist position in art criticism: “no ideology has proved to be more...

..., many of which appeared in Socialisme ou Barbarie, concern decolonialization and the war in Algeria. In the early seventies, Lyotard published the books that were to present his departure from traditional philosophy, moving outside of the accepted boundaries of aesthetics by proposing a theory...

... of the Aesthetic Face (New York: Thieme-Stratton, 1984) 64 and 65. On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body Anne Balsamo The Biotechnological Reproduction of Gender Among the most intriguing new body...

... film to be a kind of writing. From her earliest work - which tries to forge a common ground between film and fiction in what she sees as their shared possi- bilities for a rich aesthetic expressivity - to her most recent ventures into a post-structuralist rethinking of writing as that force...

... stylistic connotation, conveying ‘pastness’ by the glossy qualities of the image,” and the tendency toward pastiche—a jumble of histori- cal styles that Jameson identifies as central for the postmodern aesthetic—seem to suggest as much.2 If, however, we were to understand this postmodern historical...