Neo-Aesthetic Theory

A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and art



Miško Šuvaković describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a "permanent state of emergency". The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic historicizing) and the politics of space (geographic difference). By mapping visual arts, performance arts, architecture, music, new media and postmedia arts with contemporary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, he challenges established conceptualizations in modern and contemporary art movements.



Miško Šuvaković (* 1954) received his PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade. He has been professor of applied aesthetics since 1996 and is currently dean of the Faculty of Media and Communication, University Singidunum, Belgrade, as well as president of the Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia.



Introduction

Politics of Theory

1. Theories of Modernism

Politics of Time and Space

2. The Return of the Political

in Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy and Art

3. Troubles with the Economy, Geography and History

The Social Turn

4. Gray Zones – Political Economy through Forms of Life

Eleven Theses on Feuerbach, Friedman, Hayek and Speculative Realism

Socialism / Cold War / Postsocialism

5. The Aesthetics of Disruption

Platforms of Avant-Garde Production in Socialist Yugoslavia and Serbia

6. Conceptual Art

The Yugoslav Case

7. Beyond Borders

John Cage, Cold War Politics and Artistic Experimentation in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Music Through Aesthetics

8. The Phenomenology of the Screen (and / or / as) Event

Musical De-Ontologisation

9. Aesthetics, Politics and Music

The Context of Contemporary Critical Theory

10. Music and Politics

The Reconstruction of Aesthetics and the Contemporary World

Critical Architecture

11. General Theory of Ideology

Architecture

12. Architecture as Cultural Practice

The Market's Appropriation of the Social or the Ideology of the Multitude

Performance Art

13. Technologies of Performance in Performance Art

Concepts and Phenomenological Research

14. The Avant-Garde: Performance and Dance

Ideologies, Events, Discourses

15. Discourses and Dance

An Introduction to the Analysis of the Resistance of Philosophy and Theory towards Dance

16. Theoretical Performance

Performative Knowledge

Performance Art

17. Appropriations of Music

Postmedia: Music

18. Beyond Paper

Postmedia and Flexible Art

19. Bio Art

The Prehuman / The Human / The Posthuman

20. Simultaneously Always, Now and Everywhere

A Real Fiction

21. Multiple Political/Sexual Bodies

Between the Public and the Intimate

22. Auto-Criticism of Subjectivisation

Painting as Postmedia Politics

Experimental Theory

23. A Claustrophobic Event

Bare Life

24. A Narrative

An Utterly Ordinary Evening – PETIT a



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