Search results for “[Subject: aesthetics]”

• Author(s): Kirsi Peltomaki • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsThe first book-length study of this influential artist's work, focusing on the participatory role of the human subject rath...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Mark Foster Gage • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismHow aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for political and social enga...

• Author(s): G. Gabrielle Starr • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional hu...

• Author(s): Jens Bjering • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA provocative edited collection that takes an original approach toward the black box of military technology, surveillance, and ...

• Author(s): Sean Cubitt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsWhat is the good life--for me, for us, for the cosmos? Good is an ecocritical enquiry into ethical and political dimensions of aesthetics. Following...

• Author(s): Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is the first book to put Aesthetic Theory into context and outline the main ideas and relevant debates, offering readers a valuable guide ...

• Author(s): Albrecht Wellmer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralEssays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.The Persistence...

• Author(s): Steven Shaviro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismA Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture.In Wi...

• Author(s): James Voorhies • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global...

• Author(s): Mads Nygaard Folkmann • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & CriticismAn original exploration of the role of aesthetics in contemporary design, uniquely combining philosophical aesthetics and cul...

• Author(s): Craig Leonard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAn examination of Herbert Marcuse's political claim for the aesthetic dimension, focusing on defamiliarization as a means of developin...

• Author(s): Toni Pape • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesHow performances of tactical imperceptibility--or "stealth"--have become a key political practice in digital culture as a means of escaping surveil...