The first part of the chapter Aesthetics and the Aesthetic Today: After Adorno in the monograph Art and Aesthetics After Adorno is devoted to Adorno's analysis of art, the aesthetic and to his critique of aesthetics as a self-referential system. The author analyzes Adorno's aesthetic theory in the light of modernist works that we often designate as avant-garde and focusses on the issue of correlation of some trends, forms and genres with their historical epoch. i.e. the issue of the corrrespondence of art as the vision of the world with the world that it symbolically materializes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31996973
The monograph by Aleš Erjavec focusses on the outstanding meeting points of art and politics and the political in the 20th century. The author argues that throughout the 20th century a conflict between artistic autonomy and political instrumentalization occurred. He concludes that such art is frequently positioned on the very edge of the dividing line between autonomy and heteronomy and thus instrumentalization and that such a position is for art often the most effective. The author supports this view by detailed philosophical and historical analyses of artworks.
COBISS.SI-ID: 245123072
Point of departure of the essay consists of two concepts, pleasure and desire, pointed out by Deleuze in his critique of Foucault, condemning the idea of pleasure as a rotten idea. For Foucault it is something positive, but is not desire, which is “out-of-joint”, something which can be properly considered only by departing from the break of Modernity. Foucault leaves this issue unthematized, he doesn't have and doesn't want to have a concept of crisis as such, that is why his own theoretical project in Deleuze's view succumbs to a crisis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30370093
The scientific monograph is concerned with three basic topics: (a) the process of passage from modernism to postmodernism; (b) ocularcentrism and visual art in the light of contemporary predominance of the visual and of the repoliticization of art and its genres; (c) the problematics of negativity of culture and of the more recent cultural geopolitical relationships which fundamentaly determine contemporary capabilities of repoliticization of art and of the linkage of the political and the aesthetic with contemporary artistic practices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28434221
The paper first situates the conception of quasi-cause within Deleuze's opus, especially concerning Deleuze's reading of Hume and Kant. It then proceeds to the role of quasi-cause in The Logic of Sense and links it with Lacan's differentiation between Cause and law. For Deleuze, the quasi-cause has its role in double causality, it is also something non-reducible to two heterogeneous multiplicities, for it splits them from within in an unpredictable and incalculable way.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28441133