Communities of Sense by Beth Hinderliter, Vered Maimon, Jaleh... - 9780822345138

Communities of SenseRethinking Aesthetics and Politics\nAuthor(s): Beth Hinderliter, Vered Maimon, Jaleh Mansoor, Seth McCormick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822345138, 978-0822345138\nSynopsis\nCommunities of Sense argues for a new understanding of the relation between politics and aesthetics in todays globalized and image-saturated world. Established and emerging scholars of art and culture draw on Jacques Rancires theorization of democratic politics to suggest that aesthetics, traditionally defined as the science of the sensible, is not a depoliticized discourse or theory of art, but instead part of a historically specific organization of social roles and communality. Rather than formulating aesthetics as the Other to politics, the contributors show that aesthetics and politics are mutually implicated in the construction of communities of visibility and sensation through which political orders [urs