Preliminary Material /Emmanuel Alloa -- Der Aufstand der Bilder /Emmanuel Alloa -- Von der Auswahl der Bilder bei der Vorstellung. Die Funktion des Leibes /Henri Bergson -- Die Wirklichkeit und ihr Schatten /Emmanuel Levinas -- Die zwei Fassungen des Imaginären /Maurice Blanchot…
Taste and preference -- Aesthetic qualities -- Hume on the standard of taste -- Identifying critics -- When critics disagree -- Comparing and sharing taste -- Some applications. "Everyone's a critic, the saying goes. This seems truer than ever in the age of social media, with c…
"Everyone's a critic, the saying goes. This seems truer than ever in the age of social media, with countless daily posts praising or lambasting the latest episode of Game of Thrones, the most recent installment in the Marvel universe movie franchise, or the new Beyoncé album. An…
Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for critiques of political candidate…
Art of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominated by post-structuralist theory and its attendant nominalism. More recently, however, the materialism of Slavoj Žižek, the realism o…
