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Aesthetics
Formal connections

Aesthetic Features

Supplies

Affect, the Body, Desire, and Psychoanalysis

Space, Architecture, and Art

Uncanny, Sublime, Transformation, and Becoming

Essential Questions and Overarching themes

Format, Chapter Names, Chapter Summaries

Uncanny

concept

Freud: The uncanny and the sublime

Embodiment

concept

Suicide

“magritte: the uncanny sublime”

source

Gender

“Ritual sutures us to the past” - simon o’sullivan

“You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”

example

Cybernetics

concept

flatline-constructs.pdf

How do we experience life?

One page only with examples, one page only with listed sources

How do we effect the world?

Make a matching website?

What is a home?

Dimensions: 8.5″ x 9.5″

Japanese side stitch, black thread

Turn this mind map into multiple layers, overrapped?

cover?

8″ x 11″ vellum

What does it mean to have agency?

I think the sublime and the uncanny are like how clausterphobia is when a space can be too big or too small and feel crushing in both instances?

japanese screw punch

What is an identity? An individual?

“Sculpture in the Expanded Field”

source

What does it mean to become?

Tilted Arc

example

Miracle Man

example

How do physical objects (i.e. spaces, architectures, and art) effect us?

2. Transformation and Becoming

What are some of the forces that cause us to transform?

Baudrillard quote abt living working dying in steel sarchophegi

Kowloon Walled City

example

Terrorism, affective politics

Sublime

concept

How do we experience life?

“At the same time, something else entirely is going on: not imitation capture of a code, surplus value of code, an increasing valence, a veritable becoming, a becoming wasp of the orchid and a becoming orchid of the wasp”

example

Dracula

Touch

These concepts are extremely powerful forces and sources for change and transformation

Psychoanalysis and Affect Theory

“It could be said that the Orchid imitates the wasp, reproducing its image in a signifying fashion (mimesis, mimicry, lure, etc)”

example

1. Affect, Embodiment, and Desire

Enmeshment

Yukio Mishima

example

Dead Ringers (1988) dir. Cronenberg

example

“The Denial of Death”

source

Research chemicals

Project 2501 (GITS) born from “the overwhelming sea of information”

#Lacanian mirror stage etc

concept

Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

example

“Touching and Not Touching: Indirections of Desire”

source

“Enhanced Interrogation techniques”

Affect and Embodiment

“Proprioception as an Aesthetic Sense” (Montero)

source

the Death drive

concept

How depression might be rage turned inward?

“Death Drive” for the title?

Terrorism, affective politics

What is love?

How does the world effect us?

4. Spaces, Architectures, and Art

3. The Uncanny and the Sublime

How does the body work?

black waxed thread

Cyborgs

concept

Vampires

Community

concept

Frank O’Hara (apostrophe and cruel optimism quote)

example

Desire and Repetition

Personality, Psychotic disorders

Ecologies of care

5. Community, the Internet, Agency, Relationships

House of Leaves

example

The Vessel

example

Rachel Whiteread

example