Main entry:

Fuller, Matthew, author.

Title & Author:

Investigative aesthetics : conflicts and commons in the politics of truth / Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2021.
©2021

Description:

259 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
Part 1. Aesthetics -- Aesthetics beyond perception -- Aesthetics -- Hyper-aesthetics -- How to inhabit the hyper-aesthetic image -- Hyperaesthesia : not making sense -- Aesthetic power -- Part 2. Investigations : what is investigation? -- Secrets -- The cat and the angel -- The ear and the eye -- The eye and the office -- Pre-emptive investigations -- Many logics of fact -- Minimal causation and field causality -- Machine investigations -- Part 3. Propositions -- Investigative commons -- The lab and the studio.

Summary:

"Increasingly artists have become political activists. Their work has taken on the shape of a criminal investigator. Where does this turn toward forensics come from? How do we understand it as a aesthetic practice? The words investigative and aesthetics seem like an uneasy match. But this book claims that expanded aesthetic practices can powerfully reshape our approach to the question of truth. Shifts in technology and new ways of thinking together offer a means of searching for facts and understanding them anew. This book proposes that the current period is defined by new forms of "aesthetic power" composed both by sensing, detection and prediction and the torrential proliferation of images and data. To evade and oppose this form of state-corporate domination we can learn to join the dots between traces within our interwoven digital, built and natural environments. Investigative aesthetics can also enable new collaborative forms of verification. Rather than rely on official expertise it calls for an open process that combines the perspectives of communities exposed to state or corporate violence with those of artists, activists and scientists. This new practice takes place equally in the field, the art studio as in the scientific laboratory, online and in the streets, as it strives towards the construction of a new "common sensing""-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781788739085 (hardback)
1788739086
(UK EBK)
9781788739108
(US EBK)
9781788739092

Subject:

Truth.
Aesthetics.
Investigations.
Art Political aspects.
Esthétique 21e siècle.
Art Aspect politique.
Vérité.
Enquêtes.
political art.
truth.
investigation.
Aesthetics, Modern
Aesthetics, Modern 21st century

Form/genre:

works of art.
Informational works
Art
Œuvres d'art.
Documents d'information.

Added entries:

Weizman, Eyal, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315745
Call No.: 315745
Copy: 1
Status: Available