VOLUME 4(5) • 2016
LEARNING UNTIMELY
ABSTRACT. This article investigates the temporal aspects of Jacques Rancière’s political and educational theorization through Pilvi Takala’s interventionist artwork The Trainee (2008). By reading Takala’s presence at the global accounting firm Deloitte as a durative time of learning that both reflec..
CONSENSUS AND DISSENSUS AT THE NEOLIBERAL ART MUSEUM
ABSTRACT. Rancière’s dissensual politics is used to consider art museums’ efforts toward social work through institutional outreach and participatory strategies within art and education. While such foci hold the populist aura of inclusion through increased public and civic engagement, I lay out how ..
THE ANTINOMY OF AUTONOMY AND HETERONOMY IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. This essay’s main purpose is to explore a series of contemporary art practices that in different ways raise questions about the relationship between art and politics. A touchstone for current debates on the politics of art is the work of Jacques Ranciére. In his writing on politics and aes..
RANCIÈRE, THE ORIGINS OF THE WORK OF ART EDUCATION, AND NEW STANDARDS
ABSTRACT. Jacques Rancière articulates three different regimes of cultural activity. Art production belongs to all three regimes, but only the third regime is aesthetic. Rancière’s conception of his aesthetic regime springs from the 18th century philosophy of Friedrich Schiller. Schiller’s thought a..
THE DELICATE TASTE FOR DEMOCRACY: RETHINKING THE RADICAL POLITICAL POSSIBILITIES OF TASTE IN VISUAL CULTURE ART EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. In this article, I argue that visual culture art education (VCAE) has prematurely dismissed the question of taste. While problematizing taste as a form of social privilege, VCAE inadvertently misses the sensorial politics of aesthetic redistribution that is promised through the cultivation..
FEATURE ARTICLE: POLITICAL FRAUDS, DONALD TRUMP, AND THE GHOST OF TOTALITARIANISM
ABSTRACT. This article argues that far from being an eccentric clown who has bullied himself into becoming the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump is the embodiment of a society in which civic literacy is in retreat and public values are now subordinated to a market driven fundam..