Search results for "Esthetics"
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Aesthetic engagement in museum exhibitions
2014
Book Note : Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability
2019
Interpretation, Negotiation, Play
2022
Augmented reality (AR) picturebooks combine printed children's literature with augmented reality. This study examines the shared reading of the Finnish AR picturebook Mur, eli karhu (2016) by Kaisa Happonen and Anne Vasko. The main aim of the study is to explore the playful reading experience of three Finnish families with children between the ages of 4 and 6. Three main categories of engagement with the book are discussed in the article: interpretation, negotiation, and play. The findings of the study suggest that children are skilled users of mobile digital media but may not understand the content of AR without parental mediation. In addition, parents and educators are required to have su…
(Un)framing Lampedusa: Regimes of Visibility and the Politics of Affect in Italian Media Representations
2017
The 3rd of October 2013 more than 300 migrants died after a boat sank off the coasts of Lampedusa. This probably was the most dramatic shipwreck ever happened in the Mediterranean, and certainly the one which attracted the most media attention in Italy and elsewhere. Since at least 1992 the Mediterranean has become the unstable ground where the dominant policies of regulated mobility and discontinuous surveillance are continuously challenged by bodies which struggle for their fundamental right to move. This conflict between global regimes of disciplined mobility (Philo 2014) and singular forms of embodied resistance (Agamben 1990) involves also the field of representation and its forcible e…
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…