Introduction / 1. Aesthetics, Poetics and Techno-Aesthetics / 2. Left-over Spaces: The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers / 3.The Language of Politics in Arundhati Roy / 4. Ai Weiwei’s Useless Materials / 5. Burial’s Muffled Soundscape of London / Conclusion
Benoît Dillet is an Assistant Lecturer in Political Thought at the
School of Politics and International Relations, University of
Kent.
Tara Puri is a Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced
Study, University of Warwick.
This is a novel and original work of political theory by two
exciting and emerging scholars in the field.
*Robert Porter, Director of the Centre for Media Research, Ulster
University*
Using four artists working in different art forms – filmmakers The
Dardenne Brothers, writer Arundhati Roy, visual artist Ai Weiwei
and musician Burial – the book explores the formation of creative
work within a thick web of political relationships and spheres …
Unlike most books about art, usually written from an art or art
historical perspective, this publication is written from a
political/philosophical standpoint. Dillet and Puri analogise in
the introduction that, just as Deleuze and Guattari argue for a
non-philosophical approach to philosophy to see the different
facets of how it really operates, a “non-art approach to art” is
required to open up insights into its effect.
*International Sculpture Center*
Overall, this book offers a stimulating examination of the
relationship between art and politics through the theoretical lens
of the philosophy of art in an innovative way. The authors provide
a rich set of references to different authors such as Blanchot,
Deleuze, Stiegler, among others. […] [T]he value of this book is
not limited to its selection of artists, but also to its focus on
the political space of art and materiality. This gets rid of the
traditional distinction between art, politics and the world,
bringing forth a more powerful critique of our time by moving
beyond the analysis of meaning or artistic merit into how art
works. Although the analysis of the materiality of art fits
remarkably well with the artworks examined, it might also be useful
for the study of other artists, not as a method, but as a reminder
of the physical space of art and its connections to the world.
*Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 9 July 2018*
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