Monday, May 30, 2011

Neoliberal Aesthetics: Fried, Rancière and the Form of the Photograph


A compelling article by the literary theorist, Walter Benn Michaels, that persuasively discusses how photographic form can serve as a strategy for working through both the aesthetics and politics of neoliberalism.

"So the idea instead is the more modest — almost tautological — one that the assertion of form embodies an alternative to neoliberal aesthetics and, in that alternative, the possibility and, for some, the desirability of an alternative to neoliberalism itself."

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Walter Benn Michaels