Aesthetics
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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

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

“You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”

example

How depression might be rage turned inward?

Personality, Psychotic disorders

the Death drive

concept

Embodiment

concept

“Proprioception as an Aesthetic Sense” (Montero)

source

Affect and Embodiment

“Enhanced Interrogation techniques”

“Touching and Not Touching: Indirections of Desire”

source

Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

example

#Lacanian mirror stage etc

concept

Community

concept

Desire and Repetition

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

Frank O’Hara (apostrophe and cruel optimism quote)

example

Research chemicals

Cybernetics

concept

Cyborgs

concept

“The Denial of Death”

source

Dead Ringers (1988) dir. Cronenberg

example

Yukio Mishima

example

Enmeshment

1. Affect, Embodiment, and Desire

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

example

3. The Uncanny and the Sublime

Suicide

Psychoanalysis and Affect Theory

Vampires

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

Touch

Gender

Dracula

5. Community, the Internet, Agency, Relationships

“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

Ecologies of care

“magritte: the uncanny sublime”

source

Freud: The uncanny and the sublime

How do we experience life?

Sublime

concept

Terrorism, affective politics

“Death Drive” for the title?

How does the body work?

Kowloon Walled City

example

Uncanny

concept

Baudrillard quote abt living working dying in steel sarchophegi

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

4. Spaces, Architectures, and Art

Rachel Whiteread

example

2. Transformation and Becoming

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

Miracle Man

example

The Vessel

example

House of Leaves

example

Tilted Arc

example

What does it mean to become?

“Sculpture in the Expanded Field”

source

flatline-constructs.pdf

How does the world effect us?

What is an identity? An individual?

japanese screw punch

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?

black waxed thread

What does it mean to have agency?

8″ x 11″ vellum

cover?

Turn this mind map into multiple layers, overrapped?

Japanese side stitch, black thread

Dimensions: 8.5″ x 9.5″

What is a home?

Make a matching website?

How do we effect the world?

Terrorism, affective politics

What is love?

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

How do we experience life?