'Monumental construction': Badiou and the politics of aesthetics

Third Text

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-392

  Noys, Benjamin ^a  

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Author keywords

Aesthetics; Alain Badiou; Capitalism; Contemporary art; Historical periodisation; Ideology; Modernism; Negation; Philosophy; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149106110     PISSN: 09528822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09528820903007669     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism, trans Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, Zone Books, New York, 1991
2. Alain Badiou, 'Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic', trans Alberto Toscano, Radical Philosophy, 130, March/ April 2005, pp 20-4, 20
3. Robert Hughes, 'Day of the Dead', Guardian, Saturday 13 September 2008, available online at http:// www.guardian.co.uk/ artanddesign/2008/sep/13/ damienhirst.art. In her reply Germaine Greer precisely notes the 'moralism' that inhabits Hughes's defence of skill, 'Germaine Greer Note to Robert Hughes: Bob, dear, Damien Hirst is just one of many artists you don't get', Guardian, Monday 22 September 2008, http:// www.guardian.co.uk/ artanddesign/2008/sep/22/ On the dialectic of skill and deskilling in modern art
4. see John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade, Verso, London-New York, 2008
5. Alain Badiou, 'Third Sketch of a Manifesto of Affirmationist Art', in Polemics, trans and intro Steve Corcoran, Verso, London-New York, 2006, p 133
6. Jacques Rancière, 'Aesthetics, Inaesthetics, Anti-Aesthetics' in Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, ed Peter Hallward, Continuum, London, 2004, pp 218-31
7. Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, trans Ray Brassier, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2003, p 12
8. Badiou, 'Third Sketch of a Manifesto of Affirmationist Art', op cit, p 147
9. Jacques Rancière, 'You Can't Anticipate Explosions: An Interview with Chto delat', 'Debates on the Avant-Garde', What is to be Done? / Chto Delat, 17, 2007, avail,abel online at http://www.chtodel at.org/index.php? option= com-content&task=view& id=365&Itemid=179
10. Antonio Negri, 'Art and Culture in the Age of Empire and the Time of the Multitudes', trans Max Henninger, SubStance, 112, 36:2, 2007, pp 48-55
11. see Alberto Toscano's 'The Sensuous Religion of the Multitude' in this issue for a more sympathetic discussion of Negri's position
12. Alain Badiou, The Century, trans with commentary and notes Alberto Toscano, Polity, Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA, 2005
13. Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis-London, 2003, p xxxiii
14. Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics, Alberto trans Toscano, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2005
15. Alain Badiou, Being and Event, trans and intro Oliver Feltham, Continuum, London-New York, 2005
16. Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans Ralph Manheim, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT-London, 1987, p 38
17. Badiou, The Century, op cit, p 152
18. Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans and intro William Lovitt, Harper, New York, 1977, p 28
19. Alain Badiou, 'Further Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution', trans Lorenzo Chiesa, positions, 13:3, 2005, pp 649-58, 655
20. Stewart Martin, 'The absolute artwork meets the absolute commodity', Radical Philosophy, 146, November/December 2007, pp 15-25
21. and John Roberts, 'Art and Its Negations', in this issue
22. Alberto Toscano, 'From the State to the World?: Badiou and Anti-capitalism', Communication and Cognition, 37:3-4, 2004, pp 199-224
23. Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1995
24. Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, London-New York, 1989
25. Bosteels, Bruno, 'Post-Maoism: Badiou and Politics', positions, 13:3, 2005, pp 575-634, p 619
26. see also Alberto Toscano, 'Communism as Separation' in Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, ed Peter Hallward, Continuum, London, 2004, pp 138-49
27. Alain Badiou, 'Destruction, Negation, Subtraction - on Pier Paolo Pasolini', Lecture given at the Graduate Seminar, Art Center College of Design in Pasedena, 6 February 2007, Lacan.com, available online at http:// lacan.com/badpas.htm
28. Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Continuum, London, 2005, p 61
29. Alain Badiou, 'Three Negations', Cardozo Law Review, 29:5, 2008, pp 1877-83, available online at http:// www.cardozolawreview.co m/PastIssues/ BADIOU.29.5.pdf
30. For a critical reading of Badiou along these lines see John Roberts, 'On the Limits of Negation in Badiou's Theory of Art', Journal of Visual Art Practice (forthcoming)
31. Joan Mellen, 'An Interview with Gillo Pontecorvo', Film Quarterly, 26:1, Autumn 1972, pp 2-10, p 2
32. Alain Badiou, 'The Contemporary Figure of the Soldier in Politics and Poetry', UCLA Art Center in Pasadena, January 2007, Lacan.com, available online at http:// www.lacan.com/ badsold.htm
33. See Alberto Toscano, 'The Open Secret of Real Abstraction', Rethinking Marxism, 20:2, April 2008, pp 273-87
34. Alain Badiou, 'Live Badiou: Interview with Alain Badiou, Paris, December 2007', in Oliver Feltham, Alain Badiou: Live Theory, Continuum, London and New York, 2008, pp 136-9, p 139
35. and see Alain Badiou, 'Matters of Appearance: An Interview with Lauren Sedofsky, Artforum XLV:3, November 2006, pp 246-53, 322, 322