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 |
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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 counterintuitive effects of the rhetoric of value. It posits that the auditing of values pervades the fabric of people's work-lives, their education and increasingly their everyday experience. The book uncovers figures of resentment, disenchantment and alienation fostered by the dogma of value. It offers instead that value judgments can behave insidiously, incorporating aesthetic, ethical, or ideological values fundamentally opposed to the 'value' they purportedly name and describe. This collection contains contributions from leading scholars in the UK and US in the fields of anthropology, the history of art, literature, education, musicology, political science and philosophy"-- |
| 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 and devalorization : Asger Jorn's theory of value / Art=capital? : reflections on Joseph Beuys' Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977 / Value and abjection : listening to music with Edward W. Said / Intransigent play : detail, form and interpretation in the music of Derek Bailey / "The nice thing about value is that everyone has it" : art & anthropology despite culture / Rimbaud, the occasion of poetry, and the walls of our schools / Saying no! : profligacy versus austerity, or, Metaphor against model in justifying the arts and humanities in the contemporary university / The teleology of education and the metaphysics of contingency / Value : critical pedagogy, participatory art and higher education : a new measure and meaning of the common(s) / Educational value : contingency and the learning "subject" / Negative aesthetic education / |