Practical Aesthetics
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Practical Aesthetics

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Practical Aesthetics

About this book

This collection brings together artists and theoreticians to provide the first anthology of a new field: Practical Aesthetics. A work of art already contains its own criticism, a knowledge of its own which need not be conceptual or propositional. Yet today, there are many approaches to different forms of art that work on the brink between science and art, 'sensible cognition' and proposition, aesthetic knowledge and rational knowledge, while thinking with art (or the artistic material) rather than about it. This volumes presents ways of thinking with different forms of art (film, sound, dance, literature, etc), as well as new forms of aesthetic research and presentation such as Media Philosophy, the audiovisual essay, fictocriticism, the audio paper, and Artistic Research. It reveals how writing about art can become 'artistic' or 'poetic' in its own right: not only writing about artistic effects, but producing them in the first place. This takes art not as an object of (external) analysis, but as a subject with a knowledge in its own right, creating a co-composing 'conceptual interference pattern' between theory and practice. A 'practical aesthetics' thus understood, can be described as thinking with art, in order to find new ways to create worlds and thus to make the world perceivable in different ways.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781350185524
eBook ISBN
9781350116115
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Aesthetics in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Illustratiuon
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Toward a Practical Aesthetics: Thinking With
  7. Chapter 1: The Experiment: Between Art and Life
  8. Chapter 2: On the Practice of Theory: The Technological Turn of Media Theory and Aesthetic Practice of Media Philosophy
  9. Chapter 3: Episode Zero: How Empirical Science Discounts Aesthetic Experience, and a Practical Way to Bring It Back
  10. Chapter 4: Practical Aesthetics: The Case of BioArt
  11. Chapter 5: Colors without Bodies: Wes Anderson’s Drab Ethics
  12. Chapter 6: In Lag of Knowledge: The Video Essay as Parapraxis
  13. Chapter 7: Thinking with Film Images in Dawson City: Frozen Time
  14. Chapter 8: Lapses, Affects, Supplement: Hiro Murai’s Audiovisual Anachronism
  15. Chapter 9: Some Notes on Sound Thinking
  16. Chapter 10: Thinking with Sound: Preliminary Thoughts
  17. Chapter 11: In Search of Sacred Space
  18. Chapter 12: Thinking in Sound
  19. Chapter 13: Music as Sonic Praxis: On the Work of Catherine Christer Hennix
  20. Chapter 14: The Audio Paper as Affective Attunements: Thinking, Producing, and Listening
  21. Chapter 15: Genealogies of Immersive Media and Virtual Reality (VR) as Practical Aesthetic Machines
  22. Chapter 16: As Duo: Thinking with Dance
  23. Chapter 17: The Heart and Other Organs of Darkness in the Year 2019
  24. Chapter 18: Essayistic Imagination as Thinking With: Practical Aesthetics and Max Bense’s Essay on the Essay
  25. Chapter 19: Radioactivity and the Typewriter’s Breath: Practical Aesthetics in Pound and Olson
  26. Chapter 20: Can Practical Aesthetics Change Lives?
  27. Chapter 21: Contaminations: Toward an Empathic Museology
  28. Chapter 22: Thinking with Archival Ordering, or the Politics of Destruction
  29. Contributors
  30. Index