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Illustrated in color and bw. Issued in conjunction with a series of exhibitions. With illustrated essays by Steven P. Features the work of 15 artists: One of copies. In any case the interzone as derived from the metaxy metaphysically - as aesthetic as it may be Mahr - remains rooted in touch and its sense, in a discourse about the animal which is zoology. As is shown the sense of touch is the only sense indispensable for the existence of living beings Aristotle Besides, the sense of touch has not a distinctive, own sensible quality at hand, so to say, but several ones and potentially all qualities in one Derrida , 61f.
To know which way the wind blows. It is Jean-Luc Nancy who reminds us that the city as a public area is a space Nancy b, More precisely, in it citizens and the city as the public correspond to each other institutionally. This is point where Nancy passionately thinks the relationship of the interzone in addition to and beyond metaphysics with taking up the old concept of community.
He does so in a particular way. However this in-between, this interval could be realized by politics only in a broken way. If this is the ground of a being-in-the-community, as Nancy suggests, this ground from the first is paradoxically excluded by communities as we know them Nancy a, More precisely , here as elsewhere common appearance is the space of public appearance, however an appearing-together that cannot be distinguished from a private appearing anymore. So the real intruders of the urban appear to be commerce, design and the media as visible or invisible as they may be.
Yet t he ground of a common appearing is actually excluded as a fundament of being-in-the-community not just because of the disappearing of the distinction of public and private appearance. Additionally very often such a common appearing is made impossible with denying a figure or name to people. P ost-totalitarian politics is only possible by acknowledging that irregular moment of a specific kind of opening.
Communities may only become aware of themselves by being disturbed by intruders and at the same time being ready for this as irrepresentational it may be Nancy This is exactly what the Karlsplatz scene embodies and demonstrates, an empty center. Therefore com-munication is always problematic. Here is the hardest thing to think.
That empty center as de-signed by the Karlsplatz scene is to be imagined and realized as an inoperative interval. That can mean nothing else than a figuration of something different or new: What is this scene if not designed legally, politically, socially, aesthetically and yet to create something beyond the elementary particles that move in different groups, speeds, consistencies? Because of a significant lack of common being the relation of being-with with politics should not be a founding or expressing relation which would run again into a founding or expressing of a totality of being-with.
How can politics guarantee justice within a multitude and multiplicity Nancy , 40 and leave expression to the space of the interval, the interzone? This questions remains to be answered.
Hang around the theater. The task is defined by the question about the relationship of the interzone and the media. A systematic analysis and account is yet to be done. Here is some material concerning some phenomena that have recently appeared in cities also showing effects of contemporary media. What, among other things, determines life in cities today is a phenomenalization of the body in the public by means of extended pictorial activities. For instance could be made a case of the commodification of public space with billboard campaigns for nylons that interweave media as bodies and bodies as media Lammer , f.
In fact this analysis is further sustained by the new technology of semi-transparent billboards covering whole houses or trams with billboards that allow the transmission of light to people sitting in these houses or trams.
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Also to be found on a level more or less pictorial are other phenomena of transparency. The fact of the construction of noise protection walls along highways and railways a chance of medialisation, but of what kind? A consequence may be that we act in real space as if it were just a picture we pass through. Mistaking real people for pictures - nourished by VR like computer games - may therefore be understood as resulting from an increase of ghost-drivers or of people recently canceling the consensus of going on the right side on sidewalks and being ready to bumbing against each other compare discussion of trust on using streets by car: Today this technology is used by computer games offering figures you can literally go through what is still abhorred by some gamers.
In which way ever it will be aesthetic, one thing is for sure. Squares, as do streets, will be or already have become objects of visual design with the use of video and web cams.
The camera on top of the Evangelische Schule is one among many proofs. Electronic observation systems - to be considered as virtually restricting and changing part of a space into zones - may be hidden but are just another example of aesthetic design which remains to be examined by a scientific analysis of its aesthetic aspects. Under way is the imposition of a different kind of surveillance system. Again, aesthetic design is given and may be playfully possible with the introduction of surveillance by electronic hobbles which in Austria runs through a testing period and will probably replace imprisonment penalty for certain persons under certain conditions here as elsewhere.
For TV has constantly appropriated private space and made it public in sensationalist reports or reality shows that offer sadist pleasures by watching people suffering. It seems as if people who show them suffering in material or symbolic ways publicly - as do drug addicts - are not conceded any public space beyond electronic mass media. In other words, addicts who more or less involuntarily show in the public have become or been? Surveillance at a time when discussed in the wake of dawning control societies was already analysed by a powerful work on June 16, carried through for the Vienna Festival of that year.
A problem has arisen - for social workers, for the police - with recent mobile phone communication. What is difficult to survey, what seems to be chaotic may become a tool for again aesthetically organizing and also consciously showing yourself. People loudly using mobile phones could profit from what has become an actual political means. At stake, artistically or not, is a reorganization of public space that may once again put to the test of what a square achieves today in terms of conceiving a continuum beyond shopping arcades and prohibition borders. All these phenomena are focused to some extent in the problematics of squares today.
As such these phenomena give rise to another question. Do addicts respond to these various kinds of media aesthetically? To which extent do they medialize themselves? Do they stage themselves as a counter medium? Aesthetics is the future of ethics, to reverse a saying by Lenin for approaching the conclusion.
We might win almost everything with enhancing and spreading aisthesis. So what does and did aesthetics have to say, the philosophy of art? Have there been made contributions for a philosophy of aesthetic space? A theory and classification of the arts before Kant was concerned with the classifying criteria of use or pleasure, invention or imitation, and design or beauty.
For some reasons Kant felt drawn to detach a basis of sensation. There needed to be something before sensation because sensation and what is given by it seemed to be determined by a variety of different contents constantly changing in our minds. Kant called it the form of all variety. This form is not yet an active form as produced and set free by the formation of mental activity but an entity that transcends or escapes our mental attention in general.
The forms of intuition as prepared by sensation: As with space, Kant took away what could have been the basis of an aesthetic theory in space and time, but thereby achieved to open up space as a fundamental form a priori. Space is needed for mathematics, physics and other Newtonian mechanist sciences, for geometry and science proper. However Kant did not found his theory of art on space and time. He rather explicitly removed concerns of a theory of art and the aesthetic from what he called the aesthetic of time and space.
As we know, Kant addressed the beautiful arts only late in the development of his three-partite system of Critique. Instead of sensation he chose to focus on aesthetic endeavours in the modern sense with filling a gap left between the first two critiques. He sort of discovered the complex mental activity of judgment. Hume had aroused his attention on the topic who showed that there is aesthetic judgment based on principles and standards however not to be defined as with natural or moral laws.
Judgment instead of sensation further lead Kant to aesthetic art in so far as art is one of the most suitable objects for the refinement of judgment as a work - first for the artist, secondly for the critic. But when Kant in his Third Critique more incidentally begins to speak about art as distinguished from nature, science and manufacture he very soon pondered the arts as an objectivity appropriate to the freedom of artists who liberate themselves from merely imitating nature.
Hence artistic ingenium particularly requires, besides imagination, taste and reason and a spirit which guarantees an ability to express aesthetic ideas which is what art does.
Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: Ascending Descending Display Currency: Pages lightly toned as to be expected from pulp magazines. With realizing displacement the strike does not represent anything, it rather represents something that amounts to rendering the negative of an aesthetic event for instance of performance art or show realities Hamacher They make private non-aesthetic use of the Stadtbild, city picture, city venue.
Since the time of Kant idealist-expressivist theories of art made their way. Vischer did not come closer to analyse arts of space and time respectively when systematizing the objective art form or plastic arts architecture, sculpture, painting , the subjective art form or music and the subjective-objective art form or poetry. The classificatory matter shows to be even more complicate with Heidegger who concedes that the conception of art as essentially being poetry - art as a work-ing that unveils being - should not reduce the arts of building, pictures and sounds.
However poetry is but a way of an enlightening design of truth. His semiotic ontology rather gives an account of a special kind of signs, i. It is obvious that a square has a name and is also spatially design at ed by surrounding buildings, mutually gaze-crossing window, walls and the rules for a specific use. Yet the multiple semiotic structure of a square seems to be too secluded to retain the powerful dimension of space.
Up to this day we see aesthetics as general theory of art only insufficiently equipped with addressing problems of space. Yet architectural and urban design offer an appealing albeit difficult aesthetic potential that affects the arts in a rather different way.
Debated, fought for and used as the way of perceiving and letting perceive changes aesthetics with far reaching consequences here. Here is the chance to turn to Nancy once more. We may now make more explicit what his aesthetics is concerned with in connection to his political philosophy of media. Miraculously the sensible sense divides itself into the five or more senses and thereby fragments the sense.
This conception of art can be refined by a more bodily oriented notion of sensual zones that takes account of the division of differing spaces created by the artist and thereby set in contact with touching the world Nancy a, 35f. Art divides the common sense, I add: This is most important: What is the lesson taught by the drug addicts to aesthetics? An art of aisthesis that leads us back, among other aims, to the arts themselves?
Whatever the conception of this art will look like - reordering architecture, theater, language and urban design in the space of a classification of the arts - it will become clear that aesthetic perception rather than legal and urban design will be the solution. T he chance of para-site Karlsplatz is a constantly thematizing of an art of the public space that starts with the Wohnzimmer realized by those who legitimately use public space for private reasons.
Karlsplatz square needs to be revealed as a scene in the theatralic sense. It is the small square use underneath that makes appear the big square problem. Therefore we all concerned have come. It is obvious that one-sided populist legal, police and social measures aggravate the problem. It rather would be a backdrop to aesthetic art objects where communication, especially aesthetic communication is needed.
In search for other spaces an examination of aesthetic perception is required for the recognition of an interzone as given with Karlsplatz. This perception necessarily is a mutual perception appropriate to the interzone between the drug addicts and the pedestrians. As Nancy puts it a being-in-the-community is possible here, a comparution, a kind of common just-being-published, that is an appearing-together that again makes clear that an intruding cannot be evaded. Bibliography translations of quotes from listed sources below with no translators named: Aristoteles graece ex recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri.
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