Screen LibraryAgainst value in the arts and education /
"Proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that, rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of th...
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Rowman & Littlefield International,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Disruptions
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| Summary: |
"Proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that, rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art's defenders make art self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo chamber for the limited and limiting self-description of people's lives in an 'audit culture,' a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence of practices of accountability. The book diagnoses the counte |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781783484904 (paperback) : 178348490X (paperback) 9781783484898 (hardback) 1783484896 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | NX180 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/A259 |
| Contents: |
Against value / The authority of value, and abjection from value / Post-critical / Invaluable elephants, or, The against-value of critique (for animals) / Enlightenment against value? : two intuitions and Hume's "Of the standard of taste" / Bargain-basement thought / Techno-criticism and/against the value of the flesh / Useless commodities, disposable bodies : an essay on value and waste / Art a |