This presentation is sold out. In person and live streamed: What is an aesthetic category? In what sense is it a historical product enabling us to think more deeply about other historical phenomena, including our contemporary moment? How are its two components, spontaneous judgment and the perception of form, brought together into a distinctive experience? While drawing on philosophers to think about these questions, this keynote presentation will also explore them through a problematic example specific to capitalist culture: the extravagantly impoverished, simultaneously overperforming and underperforming, fundamentally compromised gimmick.
Session
Keynote Address
Location
ISAC Museum, Breasted Hall
Presenters