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January 3, 2008
According to Katharine Wolfe in her From Aesthetics to Politics: Rancière, Kant and Deleuze in Contemporary Aesthetics Jacques Rancière insists that:
aesthetics must be understood in the terms of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Aesthetics is "the system of a priori forms determining what presents itself to sense experience"...Just as these a priori forms determine the organization of human experience and provide its conditions, aesthetics comes in various structural systems that serve both to condition the shared world of our daily experience and to partition that world and delimit the positions one might occupy within it.
This certainly opens up our understanding of aesthetics and takes it away from being confined in the art institution, equating aethetics with beauty, or aesthetics in the academy. It's a reclaiming of "aesthetics" from its current narrow confines to explore its significance for contemporary experience.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, evening, Cape Jervis Ferry, 2007
In The Politics of Aesthetics Rancière moves quickly on to undertake a Foucaultian historiography of distinct artistic practices and systems, illuminating the subject positions they make possible as well as the political systems with which they are synonymous.
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