Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series Feb 24th
Channel: Aesthetics and Politics
Date: 2022-02-25

February 24 at 12PM
Artifices, Arts and Artificiality: Revisiting Aristotle’s notion of Technē and Reinventing its Interpretative Potential

Speaker
Dr. Katerina Kolozova
Senior researcher and professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje, and visiting faculty at Arizona State University, Center for Philosophical Technologies. At the Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, she teaches contemporary political philosophy. 

Respondent
Dr. Alice Rekab is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of complex cultural and personal narratives.

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The School of Critical Studies is pleased to announce the Spring 2022 Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series. The theme for this semester is Dominance and Revolution. 

Themes of dominance and revolution are not so popular today. The idea of a comprehensive re-orientation of our world is claimed to be impossible, and the notion that there is a visible concentration of power that might be called dominant has been eviscerated by neo-liberal global capital as much as by the disaggregating mechanics of critical theory which has preferred to speak about horizontal forms of power as opposed to verticality.
 
Here we can ask about the role and force of the image in this project, the validity of speaking about the class struggle, the role of critique and reason for class consciousness, as well as race and equality; and notwithstanding the question of a politics that can re-think the human, the subject and the ‘we’. When today, these universal elements are extirpated in the subliminal negativity of identity politics’ neo-expressivism, as well as in critiques from the right and the left, we can ask what it is to understand, communicate and picture the political, one that can delve into the complex of negativity and constructive affirmation?

All events will be streamed via the Aesthetics and Politics Youtube channel, at youtube.com/c/AestheticsandPolitics. All events are free and open to the public. Visit the CalArts Calendar for full event listings.