Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic

Index

Participants in the Seminars are only indexed when they are referred to in the Assessments and Afterword. abject, 47, 50, 54–55, 75, 81–82, 212 Adorno, Theodor, 14, 29–30, 65, 68, 70–71, 74, 87, 120, 123, 152, 155, 190–94; affect theory and, 179–84 aesthetics, 3–9, 64, 76–89, 110–14; absent from relational aesthetics , 6; conservatism and, 8; contemporary understandings of, 3–4; as formalist, 23–24; opposites of, 4; precedes the affective regime, 108; transcultural and intercultural, 114. See also migratory aesthetics; relational aesthetics affect theory, 10–13, 26, 28, 91–108; administration , 101; Adorno and, 179–84; blunted, 102–3; clinical understandings of, 102; as conservative, 107; as deconstructive, 95; evoked but not named, 120; labor and, 204; relation to feelings, passions, moods, and sentiments 106–7; resistance and, 96. See also trauma theory affectation, 103 aisthesis, 79, 138 Alberro, Alex, 8 allegory, 49–40, 42. See also Owens, Craig altération, 51, 53 altermodernity, 6 Althusser, 93, 96, 101, 105, 204 animal, the, 11 animism, 89, 101, 103, 118 anthropology, 13 anti-aesthetic (concept), first- and second-order problems in, 15; not opposed to the aesthetic , 25–26, 70, 148, 155; origins of, 1–2, 26–27, 156. See also Anti-Aesthetic, The (book) Anti-Aesthetic, The (book), 1, 3–4, 37–39; aesthetization of, 203; essays as allegories, 42; essays as associative, 43; funding of, 185; reception in Europe, 48–49. See also anti-aesthetic (concept); taste anti-semiotics, 12 antihumanism, 91–92 Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, 47 art history, 7, 9, 41, 43, 63–64, 91–93, 114, 117, 123–24, 151, 187, 201, 203 a-signifying non-sign, 99–100, 105, 212–13, 216; affect theory and, 12 assemblage, 42 Augé, Marc, 84 aura. See Benjamin, Walter autonomy, 29 “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” 30, 38 Bacon, Francis, 50, 77, 81–83, 91, 95, 99, 103, 123, 131, 182–83 Badiou, Alain, 7, 66; absent from the discussions, 109 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 50 Bal, Mieke, 10 balance, 9 Barriendos, Joaquín, 14 Barth, Karl, 6, 109 Barthes, Roland, 39, 42–44, 73, 93, 96, 122; affect theory and, 96; on structuralism, 34 Bataille, Georges, 5, 49–54, 101, 124, 134, 191, 209, 215 Baudrillard, Jean, 49, 123 beauty, 1, 3, 75; in art criticism , 35; in Christian hermeneutics, 109; contemporary positions regarding, 5–6 Beckley, Bill, 5, 109 Benjamin, Walter, 4, 30, 38, 44, 47, 59–60, 88, 120, 123, 140–41, 148–49; affect and, 74; authors of The Anti-Aesthetic and, 39–40; concept of aura, 65, 89; two readings of, 75 Bennett, Jane, 10, 12 Bennett, Jill, 103 Bennett, Tony, 14 Berlant, Lauren, 26 Bernstein, Jay, 125, 127, 131, 135, 145, 151–52, 155–56, 159, 161, 168–70, 178–80, 190, 192, 198–99, 205, 208, 210, 212, 216, 218 Bersani, Leo, 26 beyond, as in Beyond the Aesthetic and the AntiAesthetic , 16 blasé, 102 body, biomediated, 11 Bois, Yve-Alain, 27, 47, 50–54, 57, 59, 61, 72, 93, 134, 151, 191; reading of Manet’s Olympia, 68 Bourdieu, Pierre, 7, 14 Bourriaud, Nicolas, 6–8, 15. See also relational aesthetics Brecht, 78, 88–89, 97, 188 Breitz, Candice, 91, 96–97, 99, 104; affect in, 105 Brennan, Teresa, 106 Brown, Dakota, 179, 213 Buck-Morss, Susan, 4, 43, 113 Bürger, Peter, 29, 32, 72, 151 Butler, Judith, 103–5, 206, 210 Camnitzer, Luis, 4 Caravaggio, 68–69 Cavell, Stanley, 60, 67–68 Christian scholarship, 5–6 clarity, 9 INDEX index 232 Clark, Lygia, 85, 103 Clark, T. J., 7 Clough, Patricia, 11 Colescott, Robert, 187 Connolly, William, 12 conviction, 35 Costello, Diarmuid, 151–56, 168, 183, 191, 209, 213 creepy, the, 89 criteria, 67–68 Critical Art Ensemble, 4, 15 critical theory, 67–76, 123 criticality, 1, 35, 76, 113, 126; and affect, 95; as uninteresting , 86 criticism, 65–66, 78 critique, immanent, 58, 60–63, 68 Crowther, Paul, 4 Cunha Leal, Joana, 179, 190 Damisch, Hubert, 114 De Bolla, Peter, 4 Debray, Régis, 44 de Certeau, Michel, 84 decolonial theory, 114 deconstruction, 36, 40, 50–51, 57, 59, 61, 95 De Man, Paul, anti-aesthetic and, 39 Demos, T. J., 10 Derrida, Jacques, 11. See also deconstruction desublimation, 51–53, 57 Didi-Huberman, Georges, 101 difference, 50–51 différance, 95 disaffection. See affect theory Danto, Arthur, 1–2, 109; on beauty, 5 de Duve, Thierry, 7, 23 Deleuze, Gilles, 10, 12, 25, 50, 58, 68, 77–80, 92, 95...