Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism (Charnley Kim)(Paperback)

Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism (Charnley Kim)(Paperback)

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that critique art's autonomy. The historical origins of these practices can be traced back to the avant-gardes of the

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

The Politics of Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the

The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film (Appelbaum Robert)(Paperback)

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and

Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Sunderason Sanjukta)(Paperback)

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India's long

The Eu and Crisis Response (Mac Ginty Roger)(Paperback)

A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union's crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of

Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Nanay Bence)(Paperback)

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera performance, but also everyday experiences such as autumn leaves in the park, or even just the light of the

Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide (Taliaferro Charles)(Paperback)

Explaining what art is and what's not art. What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through

The Art of Falling (Moore Kim)(Paperback)

The Art of Falling is Kim Moore's keenly anticipated debut poetry collection. A young poet from Cumbria, she writes with a compelling directness and power about her life and the lives of others. Vigorously alive and often full of humour, there are poems about ordinary people: the scaffolders and

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture (Huehls Mitchum)(Paperback)

Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary literature

Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (Cheeke Stephen)(Paperback)

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Cheeke offers close readings of poems and prose from

Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Hoelscher Jason A.)(Paperback)

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its

Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory (Mattick Jr. Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Resilience & Melancholy - pop music, feminism, neoliberalism (James Robin)(Paperback / softback)

Neoliberalism co-opts noisy riots like feminism and hardcore music--can melancholic siren songs fight

Art in Motion, Revised Edition: Animation Aesthetics (Furniss Maureen)(Paperback)

Art in Motion, Revised Edition is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full and

Psychopolitics - Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Han Byung-Chul)(Paperback / softback)

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Cooper Melinda)(Paperback)

Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression (Frantzen Mikkel Krause)(Paperback)

Using examples from art and literature, Frantzen explores the social, political and economic implications of both real and imagined depression. Is feeling blue a symptom of the death of progress? Was the suicide of David Foster Wallace a proverbial canary in a coal mine? Margaret Thatcher once

The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution (Evans Daniel)(Paperback)

Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has reached epidemic levels: the worst in the UK. Educational attainment remains stubbornly low, particularly

Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Gago Vernica)(Paperback)

In Neoliberalism from Below-first published in Argentina in 2014-Ver nica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other

Resisting Neoliberalism in Education: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives (Lynch Kathleen)(Paperback)

Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising 'free markets' as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and

Art and Objects (Harman Graham)(Paperback)

In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access

The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government (Gentili Dario)(Paperback)

When Crisis Becomes the Norm: What Can We Do to Demand Change? Crisis dominates the present historical moment. The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis and our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labor market and

Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe (Mole Richard C. M.)(Paperback)

A wide-ranging study on the reasons why queer individuals migrate to Europe and the sociopolitical frameworks they navigate. Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution. Yet, while European institutions have done much to promote the legal