The Experience of Authority: Hamlet and the Political Aesthetics of Majesty

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-502
Author(s):  
Ethan John Guagliardo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Aesthetics

scholarly journals Live Art as Urban Praxis: The Political Aesthetics of the City

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cath Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Live Art ◽  
The City

This article examines the political possibilities for an aesthetic disruption of urban space and time. Locating the discussion within debates about the neoliberal city, selected art-works from Fierce live art festival in Birmingham, England are used in order to examine how, in a specific and localised context, normative spatial patterns and temporal rhythms can be challenged and subverted. The analysis draws on, and contributes to, a sociological account of the centrality of aesthetics to political and social organisation.

The Political Economy and Political Aesthetics of Military Maps

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-205
Author(s):  
Catherine Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
The Political ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Island Populations ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Representational Power ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the representational power of maps and the violence inherent in removing volume with two-dimensional ‘objectivity’. The focus is on maps, norms and militarist institutions in Guam, foregrounding underexplored aesthetic dimensions in reports on the environmental impact of the US presence. The impact of overseas US bases is striking, a global archipelago of military infrastructure that impacts on ‘strategic and disposable’ island populations. This chapter recognizes the layers of security available even in ‘transparent’ maps.

scholarly journals Special Issue: The Political Aesthetics of Democratization Conflicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Marco Pinfari ◽  
Giorgia Aiello ◽  
Katrin Voltmer
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Aesthetics

On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792096073
Author(s):  
Bolette B Blaagaard ◽  
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
Keyword(s):  
Street Art ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Political Aesthetics

This article traces the intersecting and interstitial spaces of political aesthetics in political street art featuring key activists of the Egyptian uprising of 2011–13 as well as the following struggle. We argue that the complex political expressions displayed in the images as recontextualized and embodied afford the images different roles in citizens’ political and social struggles. We develop three modalities of political street art – emplacement, travelling and conversation – that allow different works different roles in the political formation of subjectivity. In order to understand street art’s role in political subjectivity formation, this article applies visual discursive analyses to two expressions of political street art: first, the stencil of a blue bra, referring to sitt al-banat, a woman who was stripped naked in public as she was beaten unconscious by Egyptian military soldiers; second, the mural of then jailed activist Sanaa Seif in the Copenhagen borough of Christiania.

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