Third, we are aesthetic animals inescapably, so we smuggle in the aesthetic politics we disown. We do allow ourselves an aesthetic politics of smoking and other drug use, but it’s not a politics ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather ...

After the tragedy of 9/11 in the West and the crisis of socialism in the East, the overriding ironic tone that had pervaded the 80s and 90s has begun to withdraw from the aesthetic and socio-political ...

“The film is composed of two distinct parts with very different aesthetic structures,” says Loktev. “The first half is [her] preparation, organized, isolated and linear, [while] the second is ...

Today's best TVs, while visually stunning, often sacrifice audio quality in favor of sleek designs. Those razor-thin screens don't have the space to house powerful speakers that can deliver a ...

Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...

Specific examples in the politics are frequent, and Oren specifically addresses the way the phrase "weapons of mass destruction (WMD)" helped build support for the war against Iraq. Dr. Nancy Love, ...

The people of premodern Japan built on earlier aesthetic traditions in part for their own sake, but also to find space for self-expression in the increasingly rigid and tightly controlled Tokugawa ...

Since the 32-year-old singer released “Brat” on June 7, the album — and its electric aesthetic — has dominated ... from social media to mainstream political discussion.

From clean-lined purity to decadent maximalism, Adele Cardani shares the most indispensable guides for design lovers – all ...

Sara is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at LSE who researches at the intersection of transnational politics, aesthetics, and resistance. Specifically, her doctoral ...

The project will be a visual journey through history-laden British landscapes, narrated by an imagined auteur whose fraught position as both a spy and a gay man in the mid-20th century is troubled by ...