Tag Archives: Aesthetics
Simon Critchley interview — Style in Theory
James Corby (University of Malta) interviews Simon Critchley (New School) by video link during the Style in Theory / Styling Theory conference in Malta in November 2009.
Alan A. Stone: Imagining Faith
The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick In the movie, one sees, roughly, a family, the O’Briens, dealing with the death of one of their own. Then, nothing less… Read more
New Book: Brian Massumi, Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) By Brian Massumi Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing…. Read more
The Symptom 12
The Symptom 12 / lacan dot com – Fall 2011 Jacques-Alain Miller The Non-Existent Seminar Alain Badiou Towards a New Concept of Existence Slavoj Žižek Why the Idea and Why… Read more
New Book: Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Gerhard Richter’s groundbreaking study argues that the concept of “afterness” is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean… Read more
Audio: Philosophers Zone: The Sound of Music
What do we mean when we say that the hills are alive to the sound of music? Isn’t the point not that music has sound but that it is… Read more
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism – Volume 69, Issue 1
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Special Issue: THE AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ART OF BUILDING Winter 2011, Volume 69, Issue 1 Kant and the Philosophy of… Read more
Steven Shaviro über Filmkritik
1. How do you consider your role as film critic? In the first place, I consider my role as a film critic — and also as a Professor of Film… Read more
Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio
Louise Wilson: First of all, I’d like to say that I approach your work as a visual artist. Paul Virilio: But, I always write with images. I cannot write a… Read more
CFP: Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts
CALL FOR PAPERS Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts May 4-6, 2012 King’s University College and The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada INVITED… Read more
The relevance of critical theory to art today
The relevance of critical theory to art today J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted… Read more
Video: Badiou
Alain Badiou : “Does the notion of activist art still have meaning?”
Miguel Abreu Gallery, October 13, 2010
Aesthetics and Race: New Philosophical Perspectives
Aesthetics and Race: New Philosophical Perspectives Contemporary Aesthetics, Special Volume 2 (2009) Edited with an introduction by Monique Roelofs Bringing together postcolonial, feminist, and critical race theorists, aestheticians, political philosophers,… Read more
New SEP entry: Existentialist Aesthetics
Many of the philosophers commonly described as “existentialist” have made original and decisive contributions to aesthetic thinking. In most cases, a substantial involvement in artistic practice (as novelists, playwrights or… Read more
Film-Philosophy
Volume 13, Issue No. 1, 2009 Articles ’Occupy without Counting’: Furtive Urbanism in the Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1-15) R.D. Crano Hegel and the Impossibility of the Future… Read more
Book Review: The Problem of Free Harmony in Kant’s Aesthetics
A review of Kenneth Rogerson’s The Problem of Free Harmony in Kant’s Aesthetics Kant claims that the experience of beauty rests on what he calls a “harmony,” or a “free… Read more
Michel Henry
Michael Tweed has translated and posted five Michel Henry texts over on his site. Great contribution. Link
World Pictures Journal: Volume 2
Link to articles Derek Attridge and Henry Staten – Reading for the Obvious: A Conversation Scott Durham – “The Center of the World Everywhere”: Bamako and the Scene of the… Read more