Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic

Notes on the Contributors

Gretchen Bakke is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal. Her work is on contemporary performance art in Eastern Europe, specifically Neue Slowenische Kunst and other Slovene artists and collectives active since the 1980s. Additionally, she publishes on American blockbuster movies and teaches courses on popular culture, film, and the cultural fantasies of the posthuman. Recent publications include “Dead White Men: An Essay on the Changing Dynamics of Race in American Action Cinema,” Anthropology Quarterly 83, no. 2 (2010): 400–28; “Reframing History,” Slovene Studies 30, no. 2 (2008): 185–217; and “Continuum of the Human,” Camera Obscura 22, no. 3 66 (2007): 60–91. Bakke also has a trade book currently under contract with Bloomsbury USA. Joaquín Barriendos works at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, New York. He is part of the editorial board of Journal of Visual Culture. His publications include Geoestética y Transculturalidad (Girona, 2007); Global Circuits: The Geography of Art and the New Configurations of Critical Thought, coedited with Pilar Parcerisas (Barcelona, 2011); and “Geopolitics of Global Art: The Reinvention of Latin America as a Geo-aesthetic Region,” in The Global ArtWorld: Audiences , Markets and Museums, edited by Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg (Ostfildern , 2009). Stéphanie Benzaquen is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Historical Culture, Faculty of History and the Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her publications include “Samples,” in Artist and Arm, edited by Yulia Gnirenko, Irina Tchesnokova, and Irina Yashokva (Moscow, 2005); “Harbin Express,” in What Does the Veil Know?, edited by Eva Meyer and Vivian Liska (Zurich, 2009), 85–102; “The Weird Man Who Thought He Was a Tree,” in Salute Romano (Prague, 2009), 85–89; “Remediating Genocidal Images into Contemporary Art: The Case of the Tuol Sleng Mug Shots,” Rebus 5 (2010). J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He works primarily in the areas of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, ethics, critical theory, and German Idealism. Among his books are The Philosophy of the Novel (Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York, 2001); and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006). He is presently at work on book provisionally entitled Torture and Dignity: Reflections on Moral Injury. Karen Busk-Jepsen is MPhil in art history and PhD candidate at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, with the project “An NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Notes oN the CoNtributors 222 Anthropological Turn?” Her publications include an article on Marian apparitions in Das magische Bild, edited by Iris Wenderholm, Hendrik Ziegler, and Uwe Fleckner (Hamburg, forthcoming). She has coedited the conference proceedings Anthro/Socio together with Mikkel Bogh et al. (Copenhagen, 2011) and the anthology Warburg Now? together with Joacim Sprung (Copenhagen, forthcoming). Luis Camnitzer is an artist, teacher, and art writer. His works have appeared in biennials and group shows, including Information at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1970); the Biennial of Havana (1984, 1986, and 1991); the Whitney Biennial (New York, 2000); and Documenta 11 (Kassel, 2002) and On Line (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010). His latest retrospective started at the Daros Museum in Zurich (2010) and traveled to El Museo del Barrio in New York (2011), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico, and the Helen and Morris Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2011). Camnitzer received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1961 and 1982 and the Frank Jewett Mather Award of the College Art Association in 2011. His writings frequently appear in ArtNexus, and his publications include New Art of Cuba (Austin, 1994, 2003), Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation (Austin, 2007), and On Artists, Latin America, and Other Utopias (Austin, 2009). Diarmuid Costello is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick , Chair of the British Society of Aesthetics, and codirector (with Margaret Iversen) of the AHRC “Aesthetics After Photography” research project. He coedited (with Margaret Iversen) “Photography After Conceptual Art,” special issue, Art History 32, no.5 (2009); (with Dominic Willsdon) The Life and Death of Images (Ithaca, NY, 2008); and (with Jonathan Vickery) Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers (Oxford, 2007). Recent articles on Greenberg, Fried, Cavell, Danto, de Duve and Kant, among others, have appeared in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Rivista di Estetica, and Angelaki. He is working on...