scholarly journals Caroline A. Jones. Review of "Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art" by Jacques Rancière and Zakir Paul.

CAA Reviews ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Jones
Author(s):  
Gabriel Rockhill

This chapter turns to the work of Jacques Rancière, who has, perhaps more than any other prominent living philosopher, extended the historical and historiographical work of Foucault by proposing an archeology of aesthetics, with a particular concern for its relationship to the history of politics. In doing so, however, he has stalwartly refused to provide a genealogical account of the emergence of aesthetics, which appeared at more or less the same time as modern democracy. This chapter thereby sets as its task a critical reassessment of the genealogical limitations of Rancière’s account of the historical relationship between art and politics. It is in this light that it advances an alternative account of historical causality by examining the variable conjuncture of determinants that contributed to the emergence of what Rancière calls the aesthetic regime of art.


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (56) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Imbaquingo ◽  
Carlos Hugo Aulestia

El presente texto explora la obra visual de la artista contemporánea argentina Ana Álvarez-Errecalde en la que se opera una estrategia de transgresión de las representaciones aceptables, según los regímenes de comprensión del arte dominante. El trabajo de esta autora pretende exhibir ante los receptores ciertas representaciones de los femenino y la maternidad, que en un marco estrictamente estético serían deslegitimadas o desacreditadas como un discurso de reivindicación política.Para interpretar de manera pertinente este trabajo es necesario explorar las reflexiones  de Jacques Rancière sobre los vínculos entre los regímenes de comprensión de lo estético, de naturaleza excluyente, y la noción de política, que busca la igualdad en la producción y recepción del arte. Además, se examinan los conceptos propuestos por Nicolas Bourriaud como la reapropiación de las formas y la continuidad del relato en la categoría de postproducción.Como resultado de esta exploración, en las propuestas fotográficas analizadas ‘Tres gracias sangrantes’ y ‘Anunciación’, la artista consigue generar un espacio común para mostrar la trascendencia política en los fenómenos estéticos y por tanto generar un nuevo reparto de lo sensible, en palabras de Rancière. Palabras clave: repartición de lo sensible; regímenes de lo estético, imagen fotográfica; postproducción; cuerpo.  Ana Alvarez-Errecalde’s photography: the building of sense and identity thru recycling of shapes Abstract: This text explores the visual work of the Argentine contemporary artist Ana Alvarez-Errecalde, in which a strategy of transgression of acceptable representations is used, according to the systems of understanding of the predominant art. The work of this author is intended to exhibit to the viewers, certain representations of feminine and motherhood, which under a strictly aesthetic framework, would be discredited as a discourse of political vindication. In order to understand this work in an appropriate way, it is necessary to explore Jacques Rancière's reflections about the links between the selective nature of the systems of understanding the aesthetic and the political notion, which seeks equality in the production and public reception of art. In addition, we will examine the concepts proposed by Nicolas Bourriaud, such as the art of appropriation and the production of different story lines and alternative narratives in post-production notion.As a result of this arrangement, in the photographic proposals analyzed 'Three bleeding graces' and 'Annunciation', the artist manages to generate a common space to show political significance in aesthetic phenomena and, therefore, in the words of Rancière, create a new sensitive arrangement.Keywords: distribution of the sensible; esthetic regime; photographic image; postproduction; body.


2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Michaela Fiserova ◽  

The paper invites a rethink of the political conception of Jacques Rancière, a philosopher who devoted considerable reflexion to the problem of the sharing of the sensible. Rancière proposes considering the aesthetic regime without the concept of representation. According to the author, this leads him to a paradox: on the one hand, he states that the aesthetic regime takes images for art; on the other hand, he doesn’t pay attention to the fact that it shouldn’t be possible to conceive of any regime of sharing without the concept of representation. Therefore, the author proposes a deconstructive reading of Rancière’s critique of representation, demonstrating that if the contemporary image is conceived and produced in order to be shared, it can’t be freed from representation. Finally, the author puts forth the notion of meta-representation as a solution avoiding Rancière’s antinomies.


Maska ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (185) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
Jacques Rancière

In this paper Jacques Rancière outlines the main threads of his book Aisthesis and the overall logic connecting them. Aisthesis concerns the logic of what Rancière calls the aesthetic regime of art, the regime within which, from the mid-eighteenth century on, Art (with a capital ‘A’) comes to be identified as a sphere in its own right. This regime consists in a democratization of sensible experience, which in turn fosters the project of an aesthetic revolution in which the aim is to reshape the very forms of sensible experience. Rancière describes the aspects and logic of this unique project.


2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Alliez

Ernesto Neto's installation at the Panthéon in Paris, Leviathan Toth (2006), brings us into a semiotics of intensities that does not belong to the ‘aesthetic regime’ as described by Jacques Rancière but rather to a Diagrammatic Agency of Contemporary Art. In this case study, the latter is constructed after Deleuze and Guattari – from a politics of the Body without Organs critically and clinically identified to a Body without Image.


Maska ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (185) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Pia Brezavšček ◽  
Saška Rakef Perko

For the conference The Aesthetic Regime of Art: Dimensions of Rancière’s Theory, organised by Maska, Radio Ars commissioned an interview with Jacques Rancière. The conversation focused on topics such as the relationship between politics and aesthetics, and the genesis of Rancière’s thinking, which has recently focused on aesthetics beyond the notion of beauty. We discussed the role of art in contemporary society and the accusations of its hermeticity. And we tackled the idea of communism for present times. In contrast with other star intellectuals, Rancière expresses reservations about the constant need for intellectuals to provide opinions on all subject-matters and events.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Wade Hollingshaus

Beginning in the late 1970s, Finland’s Erkki Kurenniemi (1941-2017) actively labored to archive every possible aspect of his life. He took photos, made videos, and collected his tram tickets, receipts, body hairs, etc. Kurenniemi believed that within the next forty years, computer technoscience will have advanced sufficiently that it could be programmed to interpret the data of his archive and—on his 107th birthday, 10 July 2018—resurrect his consciousness. For Kurenniemi, this project was an experiment in the realms of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. However, it can also be seen as an experiment in aesthetics, or in what Jacques Rancière calls the “aesthetic regime” of art—an aesthetic-political historical framework imbued with the dynamics of democracy, where “everything speaks.” This article reframes Kurenniemi’s work within the aesthetic regime of art to draw attention to the “silent speech” and “aestheticunconscious” (Rancière) of the work and what is the literary nature of Kurenniemi’s experiments with (techno)science.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Rosida Erowati

This paper aims to discuss the problem of aesthetic in modern Indonesian literature in its relation with the politic. In contrast with the traditional understanding of the aesthetic and politic, this paper offers an alternative perspective abstracted by the French aesthetic philosopher, Jacques Rancière, to look into five problems concerning this matter. First, the mechanism of inclusion/exclusion in defining the aesthetic in relation to politic. This problem leads to the second, that is the definition of aesthetic as a distribution of sensibility which consists of the visible, the intelligible, and the possible where the main goal is to shatter the social hierarchy. In addition to this, the definition of revolutionary works relies not on the engagement of the artist into the political field, but on the succeed to bridging the hierarchical migration. Moreover, the presumption of equality as the foundation of the revolutionary in aesthetic, thus a popular work does not always consider as such. And finally, art as an act for the people to position themselves in participating in the polis, thus the idea of literacy is a very important instrument to make sure the subject to emancipate. By considering these problems, the question of when is the birth of modern Indonesian literature needs to be re-assessed.


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