scholarly journals La politización de la estética y la dialéctica del arte moderno en el pensamiento de Walter Benjamin

2015 ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Mijael Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Experimental Production ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Critical Project

The purpose of this paper is to understand the place of the theses of Walter Benjamin on the mechanically reproducible work of art in his critical project of politicizing aesthetics. We analyse the characteristics of art produced in industrial societies in order to comprehend its social function during the processes of political organization in totalitarian States and in the critical or revolutionary thought. We propose a particular interpretation of Benjamin’s theory of aura to identify a form of experience that remains in the reception of modern artwork, which help us explain the political organization through the figure of a distracted examiner. We also present two ways critical action could be shaped in: the project of politicizing aesthetics and the experimental production of the avant-garde work of art. The former is the possibility of philosophical thought, while the latter represents the revolutionary action into the process of production and the experience of the artwork.

scholarly journals Walter Benjamin, taiteen toinen tekniikka ja avantgarden kulttuuripolitiikka

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Aleksi Lohtaja ◽  
Taneli Viitahuhta
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Political ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Mechanical Reproduction

This article provides a fresh look into Walter Benjamin’s famous essay, “Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936). Following Benjamin scholar Esther Leslie, we claim that Benjamin’s lesser-known concept of “second technique” is integral for understanding both the meaning of essay as well as mapping the political and artistic aims of the 1920’s avant-garde movements in general. The article is structured around two cases of avant-garde, both of which are central already for Benjamin, but remain somewhat under-theorized in connection to Benjamin. These are the Soviet constructivist film and the idea of glass construction in Weimar-era German architecture. Keywords: Walter Benjamin, second technique of art, avantgarde, film, architecture

Our universities away from partisan Altsarat

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
أ.د.عبد الجبار احمد عبد الله
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Moral Duty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Office ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University

In order to codify the political and partisan activity in Iraq, after a difficult labor, the Political Parties Law No. (36) for the year 2015 started and this is positive because it is not normal for the political parties and forces in Iraq to continue without a legal framework. Article (24) / paragraph (5) of the law requires that the party and its members commit themselves to the following: (To preserve the neutrality of the public office and public institutions and not to exploit it for the gains of a party or political organization). This is considered because it is illegal to exploit State institutions for partisan purposes . It is a moral duty before the politician not to exploit the political parties or some of its members or those who try to speak on their behalf directly or indirectly to achieve partisan gains. Or personality against other personalities and parties at the expense of the university entity.

Dua Aura Pada Karya Seni: Pembacaan Awal Konsep Aura Karya Seni Menurut Walter Benjamin

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Berto Tukan
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Work Of Art

Pemikiran Walter Benjamin tentang “Karya Seni di Masa Kemungkinan Reproduksi Teknisnya” (“The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” merupakan pemikirannya di periode kedua. Kemunculan “Karya Seni” berlandaskan pada dua hal yakni pertama, perubahan material dari karya seni itu sendiri dan kedua, keadaan politik Eropa di zaman itu. Dua hal ini memicu perdebatan Benjamin dengan Adorno serta mewarnai perubahan-perubahan atas tulisan itu sendiri yang terdiri dari tiga versi yang perubahannya dipicu oleh polemik dan perdebatan Benjamin dengan para koleganya kala itu serta perkembangan politik. ‘Aura’, merupakan konsep penting Benjamin dalam hal seni dan budaya. Media baru yang dibawa oleh perkembangan teknologi berkemampuan mengubah aparatus kognisi manusia persis karena ia punya kemampuan menghilangkan ‘aura’ tersebut. Aura adalah medium sehingga ia tidak melekat pada sebuah presentasi karya tertentu tetapi terletak pada ada subyek (pemirsa) dan obyek (karya seni). Aura, tidak terletak terutama pada tradisi tetapi hantu masa lalu yang terproyeksikan ke masa kini. Dengan demikian tentulah tidak serta merta karya seni reproduksi mekanis, yang menghilangkan batas-batas presentasinya yang kaku, menghilangkan unsur historis yang bisa digali dari sebuah karya seni. Disimpulkan bahwa ada dua jenis aura; katakanlah aura singular dan aura partikular.

Taken For A Ride

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Informal Economies

The growth of cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses both, drawing on long-term fieldwork in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and charting its public transport system’s journey from public to private provision. The book investigates this shift alongside the increasing deregulation of the sector and the resulting chaotic modality of public transport. It reviews state attempts to regain control over public transport, the political motivations behind these, and their inability to address its problems. The analysis documents how informal wage relations prevailed in the sector, and how their salience explains many of the inefficiencies of public transport. The changing political attitude of workers towards employers and the state is investigated: from an initial incapacity to respond to exploitation, to political organization and unionization, which won workers concessions on labour rights. A longitudinal study of workers throws light on patterns of occupational mobility in the sector. The book ends with an analysis of the political and economic interests that shaped the introduction of Bus Rapid Transit in Dar es Salaam and local resistance to it. Taken for a Ride is an interdisciplinary political economy of public transport, exposing the limitations of market fundamentalist and postcolonial scholarship on economic informality and the urban experience in developing countries, and its failure to locate the agency of the urban poor within their economic and political structures. It is both a contribution to and a call for the contextualized study of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’.

The Role of Politics in the Historical Transport Networks of the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees from Roman Times to the Nineteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-260
Author(s):  
Pau de Soto ◽  
Cèsar Carreras
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Transport Networks ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractTransport routes are basic elements that are inextricably linked to diverse political, economic, and social factors. Transport networks may be the cause or result of complex historical conjunctions that reflect to some extent a structural conception of the political systems that govern each territory. It is for this reason that analyzing the evolution of the transport routes layout in a wide territory allows us to recognize the role of the political organization and its economic influence in territorial design. In this article, the evolution of the transport network in the Iberian Peninsula has been studied in a broad chronological framework to observe how the different political systems of each period understood and modified the transport systems. Subsequently, a second analysis of the evolution of transport networks in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula is included in this article. This more detailed and geographically restricted study allows us to visualize in a different way the evolution and impact of changes in transport networks. This article focuses on the calculation of the connectivity to analyze the intermodal transport systems. The use of network science analyses to study historical roads has resulted in a great tool to visualize and understand the connectivity of the territories of each studied period and compare the evolution, changes, and continuities of the transport network.

scholarly journals SPLIT ENDS? LITERATURE AND POLITICS AT THEFIN DE SIECLE

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 697-709
Author(s):  
Jock Macleod
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
The Real ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Split Ends ◽  
Bourgeois Culture ◽  
Long Course

AS AN UNDERGRADUATE IN THE1970s, my introduction to the 1890s was perfunctory. Squeezed into a couple of weeks in the middle of a year-long course on “Victorian and Modern Literature,” the literature of the decade was reduced to aestheticism and decadence and presented as something of a preliminary to the real business of modernism. Such a focus reflected the scholarship of the time, in which thefin de sièclewas constructed as a moment of transition, one in which the political and socio-ethical dimensions so central to high Victorian literature were evacuated, as arguments for the autonomy of art came to dominate the literary cultural landscape. The organising principle was one of bifurcation: the separating out ofavant gardefrom bourgeois culture, the high from the low and, of particular relevance to this essay, literature from politics.

Poner el cuerpo para cuidar el territorio. Mujeres mapuche frente al extractivismo y la conservación, en Neuquén, Argentina

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
Florencia Trentini ◽  
Alejandra Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Leading Role

We reflect on the political organization processes of Mapuche women in territories demarcated as “protected areas” and “sacrifice areas” in Neuquén, Argentina. Beyond the differences, both conservation and protection as well as sacrifice and risk, question the rights of Mapuche communities over the territories, rising socio-environmental conflicts in which women and their practices, knowledge and bodies take a leading role. From an ethnographic and ecofeminist perspective, we investigate the practices and meanings of care, proposing a reflection on what we define as “the political”, seeking to study how care, “poner el cuerpo” and the reproduction of life become forms of politics that allow dispute rights over territories that are redefined based on their protection or sacrifice.

The avant-garde’s visual arts in the context of Santayana’s idea of vital liberty

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Skowroński
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Universe

AbstractIn the present paper, the author looks at the political dimension of some trends in the visual arts within twentieth-century avant-garde groups (cubism, expressionism, fauvism, Dada, abstractionism, surrealism) through George Santayana’s idea of vital liberty. Santayana accused the avant-gardists of social and political escapism, and of becoming unintentionally involved in secondary issues. In his view, the emphasis they placed on the medium (or diverse media) and on treating it as an aim in itself, not, as it should be, as a transmitter through which a stimulating relationship with the environment can be had, was accompanied by a focus on fragments of life and on parts of existence, and, on the other hand, by a de facto rejection of ontology and cosmology as being crucial to understanding life and the place of human beings in the universe. The avant-gardists became involved in political life by responding excessively to the events of the time, instead of to the everlasting problems that are the human lot.

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