Michael Mathiowetz, "Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest "
English | ISBN: 0816548471 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas. These worlds are solar and floral spiritual domains that are widely shared among both pre-Hispanic and contemporary Native cultures in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create a truly multidisciplinary understanding of Flower Worlds. During the last thirty years, archaeologists, art historians, ethnologists, Indigenous scholars, and linguists have emphasized the antiquity and geographical extent of similar Flower World beliefs among ethnic and linguistic groups in the New World.

Camp - Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader By Fabio Cleto (editor)
1999 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0748611703 | PDF | 25 MB
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer theory, this critical anthology simultaneously 'queers' camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory and practice of camp. The anthology is divided into five thematic/historical sections: Tasting It; Flaunting the Closet; Gender, and Other Spectacles; Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy; and The Queer Issue. These essay clusters help the reader situate the critical debates around the subject. A comprehensive bibliography of items from the earliest use of the word 'camp' to the present completes this unique and exciting volume.* The only comprehensive reader on camp to date* Gathers the best and historically most significant essays on the subject* Arranges the essays in thematic/historical sections for ease of use* A long Introduction provides a challenging rethinking of camp, and a historical/theoretical framework for research on the subject* The first definitive bibliography on camp

Aesthetics; 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments
by Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032436352 | 373 pages | True PDF | 6.96 MB

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Derek R Ford, "Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle"
English | ISBN: 1088071694 | 2023 | 158 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Exploring the nexus between aesthetics, pedagogy, and politics illustrates the central role education plays in reproducing injustice and inhibiting confidence in revolutionary struggle. Demonstrating how capitalism and its attendant forms of oppression are not merely cognitive but perceptual, Derek R. Ford proposes that revolutionary education demands the production of aesthetic experiences through which we sense the possibility and actuality of alternative worlds. In response to this pressing task, Ford develops a praxis of teaching and a pedagogy of unlearning that, in our current conjuncture, creates conditions for encountering what Jennifer Ponce de León calls "an other aesthetics." Mapping contemporary capital as a perceptual ecology of structures, social relations, beliefs, and feelings, Teaching the Actuality of Revolution provides an extensive new set of concepts, practices, and readings for revolutionaries to better plan, enact, reflect on, and refine our organizing efforts.

Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life By Christopher Freeburg
2017 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 0813940311 | PDF | 3 MB
Christopher Freeburg's Black Aesthetics and the Interior Lifeoffers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence, have completely robbed victims of their personhood, Freeburg rethinks what it means to be a person in the works of black artists.This book advances the idea thatindividualpersons always retain the ability towithhold, express, or change their ideas, and this concept has profound implications forlong-heldassumptions about the relationship between black interior life and black collective political interests. Examining an array of seminal black texts―from Ida B. Wells's antilynching pamphlets to works by Richard Wright, Nina Simone, and Toni Morrison―Freeburg demonstrates that the personhood represented by these writers unsettles rather than automatically strengthens black subjects' relationships to political movements such as racial uplift, civil rights, and black nationalism. He shows how black artists illuminate the challenges of racial collectivity while stressing the vital stakes of individual personhood. In his challenge to current African Americanist criticism, Freeburg makes a striking contribution to our understanding of African American literature and culture.

Joseph P. Huston, Marcos Nadal, Francisco Mora, "Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0199670005, 0198825234 | PDF | pages: 567 | 79.4 mb
Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species' biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore, contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its living and extinct relatives.

Undoing Aesthetics By Wolfgang Welsch
1997 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0761955941 | PDF | 8 MB
`The aestheticization of everyday life′ has become a commonplace term, one which often merely scratches the surface of contemporary culture. This study illuminates the deeper dynamics of aesthetic reality from a philosophical perspective.Wolfgang Welsch, author of the influential Aesthetic Thinking, develops an important analysis of contemporary culture with philosophical bite. He examines global aestheticization phenomena, probes the relationship of aesthetics and ethics, and considers the broad relevance of aesthetics for contemporary thinking. He argues that modes of thought familiar from the aesthetic realm comprise fundamental paradigms for understanding today′s reality. The implications for specific and everyday issues are demonstrated in studies of architecture, advertising, the Internet and our perception of the life world.

Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place By David M. Callejo Pérez, Donna Adair Breault, William White
2014 | 119 Pages | ISBN: 1433125110 | PDF | 5 MB
This book has won the «O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award» 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating context for learning. It argues that curriculum and place is a much deeper subject, with roots in aesthetics, community, and politics that go beyond the individual and profoundly address the formation of our current belief system. Despite the unique efforts described in this book to address the curriculum of space, major issues persist in our educational system. First, the rigor of curriculum studies is not usually applied to this complex field that encompasses philosophy, aesthetics, geography, social theory, and history. Second, the conflict caused by studying the place without contextualizing it within the larger social milieu ignores the nuances of our intimately global social network. Third, current responses ignore the uncritical assessment of underrepresented groups within the theoretical landscape. With these problems in mind, Curriculum as Spaces introduces foundational principles that ask us to imagine the full realization of curriculum spaces and show us how to examine the philosophical and cultural roots of these most essential principles.

Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, "Aesthetics and Politics"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1788738586 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.4 mb
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.