Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................vii
INTRODUCTION....................1
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics JACQUES RANCIÈRE....................31
The Romantic Work of Art ALEXANDER POTTS....................51
From Classical to Postclassical Beauty: Institutional Critique and Aesthetic Enigma in Louise Lawler's Photography TONI ROSS....................79
Technologies of Belonging: Sensus Communis, Disidentification RANJANA KHANNA....................111
Dada's Event: Paris, 1921 T. J. DEMOS....................135
Citizen Cursor DAVID JOSELIT....................153
Mass Customization: Corporate Architecture and the "End" of Politics REINHOLD MARTIN....................172
Experimental Communities CARLOS BASUALDO AND REINALDO LADDAGA....................197
Précarité, Autorité, Autonomie RACHEL HAIDU....................215
Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and the Politics of Identity SETH MCCORMICK....................238
Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills YATES MCKEE....................267
Thinking Red: Ethical Militance and the Group Subject EMILY APTER....................294
INTERVIEW with Étienne Balibar....................317
Bibliography....................337
Contributors....................355
Index....................359