Search results for "AESTHETICS"
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I Futuristi e l’estetica della guerra
2015
Il presente lavoro, utilizzando le chiavi di lettura antropologiche offerte da Roger Callois e Gaston Bouthoul, mette a fuoco la categoria della guerra-festa, e dimostra come la guerra per i Futuristi non sia semplicemente un argomento connesso alla contingenza storica, ma divenga una categoria estetica su cui fondare una rinnovata visione del mondo. Questo obiettivo potrà essere realizzato attraverso un progetto estetico-educativo che non solo include diverse forme artistiche (dalla letteratura alle produzioni plastico-figurative, dal teatro al cinema) ma si estende a tutti gli aspetti della vita, anche quelli più domestici e quotidiani, come i giocattoli e l’abbigliamento. Using the anthr…
Architettura
2015
L’architettura, fin dalle origini è stata un’arte ancipite, ancorata tanto alla sfera dell’utile (con le sue derivazioni funzionaliste, propugnate in varia misura dai teorici del Movimento Moderno) tanto a quella del bello (che in casi estremi approda a quelle forme di architettura/scultura in cui la destinazione d’uso si annulla nell’esperienza estetica). Questo numero della “Rivista di estetica” vuole fare il punto sullo stato attuale del dibattito, in area analitica e continentale, mettendo a fuoco gli interrogativi che la società oggi pone all’architettura. Nuove problematiche legate alla globalizzazione, all’ecologia, al paesaggio e alla salvaguardia dell’ambiente, richiedono l’interve…
Editors' Introduction
2017
Half-Masturbation or the Constant Stimulus of Video Art. Kidnapping the Viewer with Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho
2016
Some people find it very annoying to visit a contemporary art show and to remain stuck in darkened rooms with videos running on monitors or projected against the walls. However, it is hard not to be drawn towards the passing frames and the audience inevitably tries to pick up the plot. Video art appears capable to bind the spectator compelling one in front of the screen, waiting to be amused or repelled. There appears to be some sort of irresistible attraction towards it, a sort of instinctive stimulus. How may an artist foster this natural lure creating attractive video pieces? Bruce Nauman for instance holds the viewer staring at videos as he bounces a ball against the wall or his balls w…
Political Action Beyond Resistance: Arendt and "Revolutionary Spirit" in Egypt
2016
The article examines what it calls the "politics-as-resistance" frame in contemporary political theory, originating in the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. This way of organizing political experience is contrasted with Hannah Arendt's political thought, particularly her writings on revolutionary action. Arendt's often overlooked – and partly unpublished – passages on virtù and fortuna are further suggested as important additions to her thinking on action. I argue that Arendt's "world-centric" approach can illuminate certain aspects of political experience that remain dimmed in the more subject-oriented politics-as-resistance frame. Particular focus is paid to the austere notion o…
Everyday Objects
2014
Il presente numero di Aisthesis, che ha come titolo “Everyday Objects / Oggetti quotidiani”, muove da una constatazione di fatto. Oggi la plasmazione del gusto avviene, in misura notevole e forse preminente, attraverso il rapporto con oggetti d’uso che, a differenza delle opere d’arte celebrate da élites culturali in luoghi e tempi circoscritti (ma spesso fruite come oggetti per il consumo turistico di massa), hanno un ruolo pervasivo nelle varie attività della vita quotidiana, da quelle domestiche a quelle lavorative, al tempo libero. Tuttavia a causa della loro prosaicità gli oggetti quotidiani solo raramente sono stati al centro della riflessione filosofica. Così, nell’epoca attuale in c…
Care as Key to Political Aesthetics
2022
The paper investigates the concept of care starting from Socrates and Plato to Italian Humanism, as the art of educating ourselves and others to live a good life. Taking into account some contemporary philosophical perspectives (Richard Shusterman; Yuriko Saito; Ellen Dissanayake) the author focuses on care in relation to the notion of sensitiveness, education and community. Then she claims that care has a key role within political aesthetics, understanding aesthetics as “theory of perception”, in line with the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten.
The Rhythm of Time in Everyday Aesthetics
2020
Anglo-American research on aesthetics as well as that being carried out in continental Europe are increasingly interested in the topics pertaining to everyday life. However, the label “Everyday Aesthetics” apparently conveys a surprising oxymoron. After exploring the relation between Everyday and Philosophy, I shall analyse the principal theories on Everyday Aesthetics. Then, by means of anthropological interpretative tools, such as those offered by Henri Lefebvre, I will bring to the fore the concept of rhythm, as what can shed light on the fundamental value of daily life and its cyclical alternation of ordinary and extraordinary moments. According to Lefebvre, there’s no rhythm without re…
Sztuka gier wideo. Wybrane aspekty badań nad estetycznością i artyzmem gier komputerowych
2015
Autor podejmuje problematykę różnorodności stanowisk krytycznych w badaniach nad estetycznością i artyzmem gier wideo (stanowiska te są częścią pluralistycznego dyskursu nad sztuką gier komputerowych). W artykule zestawione zostają sądy i teorie reprezentujące różne sposoby traktowania kategorii estetyczności i artyzmu gier wideo, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem argumentów negujących i aprobujących istnienie sztuki gier komputerowych. Obok zarysu genezy artystycznych gier wideo podejmowana jest refleksja nad teorią badań sztuki gier komputerowych w odniesieniu do teorii sztuki Ryszarda W. Kluszczyńskiego oraz Josepha Margolisa.
ORNAMENTAL SIGN LANGUAGE IN THE FIRST ORDER TRACERY BELTS
2010
18 pages; We consider ornamental sign language of first order where principles of sieve displacement, of asymmetric building blocks as base of ornament symmetry, color exchangeability and side equivalence principles work. The generic aspects of sieve and genesis of ornamental pattern and ornament sign in it are discussed. The hemiolia principle for ornamental genesis is introduced. The discoverer of most of these principles were artist Modris Tenisons [4, 5, 6, 7 (refs. 23, 24), 8 (ref. 65)]. Here we apply systematical research using simplest mathematical arguments. We come to conclusions that mathematical argument in arising ornament is of much more significance than simply symmetries in i…