...) as well as more recent investigations in art, aesthetics, and politics (e.g., Rancière's notion of indeterminacy), this essay proposes that new habits of attenuation, diminution, and collective de-dramatization, along with new modes of perception — to which “emergent precarities” and “lateral aesthetics...

... their own discontinuities with varying milieus and emergent complexities, and with it rebuild their aesthetic resonance. Plastics demonstrate matter-flow and their peripatetic ways urge the artists to intuit their collection and aestheticize the consequent assembling and construction. Tim Ingold (2012: 434...

... of “badness.” In eleven essays contributed by a bold group of young modernist scholars, the collection resists charges of modernism’s (bad) elitism, and reconsiders the complexity and subtlety of its “virtuous,” often political, transgressions. By holding these two versions...

... thinker, like José Carlos Mariátegui, and the experimental poetics of Vicuña, as each presents a distinct polit- icization of the West in relation to language, formalism, collectivity, and identity. Mariátegui remains a historical figure in literature, poli- tics, and aesthetics, but it would...

... and affect aesthetic form. The crucial point about atomization is that it signifies the lack of oppositional praxis. Adorno clearly links modernist emergence to the collapse of the organized collective. Modernism emerges as a corollary of recoil and retreat. His is a world where even solidarity...

... as endowed intentions and effects and is a way of building an embodied bio-physico-chemical story (water, air, etc The natural and built environments, in effect, become an aesthetic intermediary with other agents in time and space. The “new materialism” supporters (Braidotti, DeLanda, Grosz...

... of the escapist formalism of postmodern building design in The Anaesthetics of Architecture. Whereas the earlier book argued that mere aestheticism results in an anaesthetic relationship to the world, Camouflage “attempts to reveal another side to aesthetics, and argues...

... . 1976 . Of Grammatology , translated by Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Eco Umberto . 1989 . The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce , translated by Esrock Ellen . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...

...Max Brzezinski This article evaluates the methods and ideological positions that define the critical movement known as the New Modernist Studies (NMS). It treats the NMS as characteristic of recent attempts to politicize aesthetics within the corporate university. The piece argues that the NMS has...

...Christa Noel Robbins This essay describes how two works by the Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera articulate the conditions of participation within both the political and aesthetic fields. That articulation unfolds in Bruguera's specifying her performances' structures of address in order...

... are a form of aesthetic-critical 58 he minnesotat review practice. Their aestheticized surface is intended to draw attention to the frame of the visual in relation to animal bodies —​something we con- sider too rarely. They put into play the function of vision in scientific knowing; they also...

... Working-Class Masculinity" (in Race and the Subject of Masculinities, Duke UP [1997 He has also championed the political potential of aesthetics in "Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style" Callaloo [Summer 1988 "The Aesthetic Ante: Pleasure, Pop Culture, and the Middle...

... individual and collective—on the one hand, there is an emphasis on stringent neutrality; and on the other hand, Habermas appeals to the importance of historically-situated collective struggles to overcome specific evils, such as ethnocentrism in Germany, in order to more fully realize liberal...

... Poe’s purloined letter, that which sits in plain view today may also remain conspicuously unno- ticed. In an era defined by historicism, the aesthetic and what one might call the literary aspects of texts become problematic holes in the collective scholarly gaze. If one looks at the past two...

... distinction, these four critics reveal the universalism and collectivity out of which the lyric voice is constructed. I argue that the New Lyric Studies, widely construed to include these critics, brings poetry in line with the social poetics, world systems, and democratic inclusivity that figure prominently...

...Derek Woods The Anthropocene demands new concepts of scale for social, cultural, and aesthetic theory. The first concept of scale critique is scale variance, which means that variable physical constraints produce disjunctures among scales. This article explicates this concept in a reading of Ray...

... Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . ———. 1991 . Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . ———. 1992 . The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System . Bloomington...

... enriched the reading of literature. Felski's books include Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (Harvard UP, 1989), The Gender of Modernity (Harvard UP, 1995), and Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (NYU P, 2000), a collection of her essays...

... of contemporary lyric subjectivity in which the lyric's “I” emerges from and is shaped by the collective immiseration of neoliberal globalization. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 lyric globalization ethics precarity Works Cited Abrams M. H. Harpham Geoffrey Galt . 2011 . A Glossary...

... of the time. Where the New Critics focused on the literary text as an autonomous aesthetic object and explicitly forbade critics from linking it with society, history, psychology, economics, politics, or ethics; cultural critics of all stripes, myself included, accepted and affirmed such links...