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Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest
Participants in the funded Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest workshop at the 果冻传媒 and others alert to the importance of aesthetics in politics examine the place of emotion in politics and how it is so effectively harnessed for political purposes through art. We are collaborating with in an editorial partnership to publish these papers; see openDemocracy - .
If you would like to contribute a piece to this series please contact Shirin Rai on shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk
Articles
Laragh Larsen
Rashmi Varma
Rachel Johnson & Shirin M. Rai
Leslie J. Morgan
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Jean-Christophe Sevin
The Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest Workshop
Welcome |
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| Shirin Rai (果冻传媒) - Welcome | Download |
Panel 1 - The Power of Aesthetics |
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| Partha Mitter (Sussex/Oxford) 'Power and Authority in Cultural Exchanges: A Revisionist Approach' | Download |
| Louise Amoore (Durham) 'Digital Aesthetics: Security's Objects and the Form of Politics' | Download |
| Les Moran (Birkbeck) 'Pedestrian Crossings; Some Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Justicial Spectacle' | Download |
| Claire Blencowe (果冻传媒) - Discussant | Download |
Panel 2 - Mapping Power Aesthetics |
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| Jean Christophe Sevin (Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille) 'The Aesthetic Politics of the Techno-Movement in France 1990-2010' | Download |
| Manuela Ciotti (Edinburgh) 'The Nation's Aesthetic Production: India's Politics of Presence Through Contemporary Art' | Download |
| Laragh Larsen (Trinity College, Dublin) 'Power, Politics and Public Monuments in Nairobi' |
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| Nicola Pratt (果冻传媒) - Discussant |
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Panel 3 - Mapping Power Aesthetics II |
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| Simonetta Falasca Zamponi (California Santa Barbara) 'The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy' | Download |
| Rebecca Brown (John Hopkins) 'Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Ghandhi and Virtuosity' | Download |
| Tim White (果冻传媒) - Discussant | Download |
Panel 4 - Aesthetics and Forms of Protest |
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| Rashmi Varma (果冻传媒) 'Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in Postcolonial India' | Download |
| Maria Tamboukou (University of East London) 'Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History' | Download |
| Alice Mah (果冻传媒) 'Alternative Forms of Resistance: Working-Class Cultural Production in Liverpool' | Download |
| Yvette Hutchinson (果冻传媒) - Discussant | Download |
Panel 5 - Aesthetics as Method: Roundtable |
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| Christine Battersby (果冻传媒) | Download |
| Oliver Davies (果冻传媒) | Download |
| L.H.M. Ling (The New School, New York) | Download |
| Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths) | Download |