This would imply that the Bravo program was an aesthetic act on the grounds of be ing disruptive and that its product was not the objects produced but the amount of disruption, like Duchamp? Kate Sullivan
-----Original Message----- From: paul boshears <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 8:15 pm Subject: Re: Isn't Bravo's "Work of Art..." turning artists into politicians? If I understand Jacques Rancihre<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ranci%C3%A8re>properly, politics is an aesthetic act in so far as it brings to the foreground what has been occluded in the background. With this reasoning he argues that politics rarely happens because it is so disruptive. The rest of the time, instead of politics we have policing -- that is, maintaining the aesthetic order. On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:22 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. Samuel Johnson
-- Paul Boshears Co-Editor continent. <http://continentcontinent.cc> a topology for thought
