Art, Aesthetics and the City August 2014; 123 Articles Bernard Smith’s Formalesque and the end of the history of art Jim Berryman Abstract: The concept of the Formalesque preoccupied Bernard Smith during the last decades of his life. First propounded in Modernism’s History (1998), the Formalesque is a proposed period style describing the art…
State of in/security Table of Contents: Articles: Contesting representation: on democracy and representative government Matthias Lievens Abstract: Several authors have recently stressed the constitutive and ubiquitous nature of representation, which, as a result, can no longer be conceived as a relation between pre-existing entities. This has important consequences for democratic representation, traditionally thought in terms…
Big city blues Table of Contents April 2014; 121 (1) Introduction: Big city blues Trevor Hogan and Julian Potter Abstract: The advent of the ‘mega’ or world city seems inseparable from the ambivalent and transient experience of modernity – the ideals of liberty, individuality, property, accelerating progress, and, for many, the realities of immobility,…
The time(s) of our lives Guest editors: Miriam Bankovsky, Toula Nicolacopoulos and George Vassilacopoulos Table of Contents Introduction: The time(s) of our lives: Contexts and critique Miriam Bankovsky,Toula Nicolacopoulos,and George Vassilacopoulos Articles: Reason, power and history: Re-reading the Dialectic of Enlightenment Amy Allen This paper re-examines the relationship between power, reason and history…
This issue brings together several essays in different fields of inquiry, from German Idealism to biopolitics. While they may appear to be disparate in their focus, the themes of autonomy, freedom, and identity nevertheless emerge as a common basic problematic. Rundell ventures into the arcane world of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge to plumb its depths…
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