"The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation? Dislike-Minded draws from over 200 interviews to probe what the media's failures and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, r…
Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show t…
There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in the 20th century for very different practices - military, scientific and medical visuali…
by Deleuze, Gilles, Guattari, Félix, Ilgaz, Turan
fromYapı Kredi yayınları / Cogito
"Derek Matravers introduces students to the philosophy of art through a close examination of eight famous works of twentieth-century art. Each work has been chosen in order to best illustrate and illuminate a particular problem in aesthetics. Each artwork forms the basis of a si…
This book investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects will always be dual phenomena, material and immaterial, sensual and conceptual, actual and possible. Drawing on formal theories of aesthetics and the phenomenology of imagination, the author seek…
