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More-Than-Human Aesthetics : Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature / edited by Melanie Sehgal and Alex Wilkie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Dis-Positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS Series
- Dis-Positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--Social aspects.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This imaginative collection invites readers to explore how a broader view of aesthetics can reshape areas like, medicine, arts and education, challenging how we think about knowledge. It is an agenda-setting contribution to understanding the significance of aesthetics in science and technology studies.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series information
- More-Than-human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Dis-Positions Series Preface
- 1 Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: Tracing More-Than-Human Aesthetics in Times of Socio-Ecological Crisis
- Aesthetics in times of socio-ecological crisis
- Aesthetics and the bifurcation of nature
- Generalization and inversion: towards a metaphysics of more-than-human aesthetic experience
- Specifying and singularizing aesthetics
- Returning to the arts? The efficacy of aesthetic figures
- The structure of the book
- Notes
- References
- PART I Feeling and Experiencing
- 2 Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s)
- Introduction
- Whitehead and the (metaphysical) need for aesthetics
- Some details: Whitehead's use of 'aesthetic' within Process and Reality
- A missing shade of blue
- Examples, metaphysics and John Dewey
- 3 Eternal Objects of Nuclear Waste Futures
- Eternal objects: definiteness in experience and the indefinite production of values
- The pursuit of eternal objects in nuclear semiotic markers
- 4 Geo-Narrativity: Anthropocene, Aesthetics, Forensics
- Deep-time aesthetics
- Fossils: planetary forensics
- Technofossils: the Anthropocene's speculative forensics
- Note
- 5 Race and Reality: Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race
- The social aesthetics of A.N. Whitehead
- The aesthetic problem(s) of race
- The fiction(s) of race
- Racial projects as aesthetic projects
- Forms of racial sensibility
- Towards a social aesthetics of race
- PART II Problematizing and (Re)Valuing.
- 6 A New Taste for Life? Value Ecologies and the Aesthetics of the Outside
- Swan songs
- Immanent values and the ecology of the virtual
- Aesthetic machines and the arts of existence
- 7 Variations on the Great Refusal via Dante and Whitehead
- The ambivalence of the great refusal
- 'Abandon all hope, you who enter here': from Dante to Mark Fisher
- Whitehead: from viltade to virtue
- The removal of perplexity: the great refusal I
- Negativity in its own right: the great refusal II
- 8 Aesthetic Axiology: Amanda Piña's Climatic Dances/Danzas Climáticas
- Opening address
- Aesthetic practices and the nature-culture divide
- Aesthetic axiology
- Dances
- Danzas
- Ends
- PART III Infecting and Caring
- 9 To Err is More Than More-Than-Human: Patient Safety and the Aesthetics of a Never Event
- Never events and patient safety
- Aesthetics, prehensions and negative prehensions
- The anaesthetics of a possible embolism
- The aesthetics of a more-than-human care system
- Conclusion
- 10 Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems
- 'Meaningful social interactions'
- Pathic experience: machinic environment
- Modular de-compositions
- Don't make me think
- Conclusion: addicted systems
- 11 On the Aesthetics of Care/Care of Aesthetics in Social Scientific Research
- High finish/low finish
- Matters of care
- Aesthetics and care: the event of 'fit'
- Too much finish, too much care?
- Unreciprocated care?
- Other circulations of care?
- Concluding remarks: the aesthetics of care/care of aesthetics
- PART IV (Un)Learning and Luring.
- 12 An Ethology of Abstractions: Learning How to Cultivate Our Modes of Thought with Stengers
- The diversity of modes of abstraction
- Possibles haunting beings
- Cultivating possibles
- 13 Back to the Classroom: What Whitehead Took from Art, and What a New Aesthetic Paradigm Can Take from Whitehead
- The art in education: generalizing the aesthetic
- Aesthetic significance in Modes of Thought
- 14 Schools of Feeling: Unlearning the Bifurcation of Nature Through Aesthetic Education
- The machinic workings of the bifurcation of nature
- The inversion of aesthetic education
- Schools of feeling
- Countering over-specialization and the disconnect between disciplines
- Relaying situated knowledges
- The place of the arts
- 'Our one ground for optimism': religious experience as aesthetic education
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2782-8
- 1-5292-2781-X
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